tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53153319663065292962017-08-16T08:10:53.920-07:00Trafficking and Prostitution ServicesTAPS is a survivor-run group that helps victims of sex trafficking to break free. You can reach us at https://www.facebook.com/TraffickingandProstitutionServicesOnline/ We also help family members and other loves ones to "retrieve" someone they feel is either trapped into sex work. If you are a parent - you can get help at www.swanfellowship.webs.com. This is the author's personal opinion and since written in the USA is protected under rights of free speech.LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.comBlogger548125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-14936004209946917252017-08-16T07:49:00.000-07:002017-08-16T08:10:53.965-07:00WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO . . . . ?<span style="font-size: large;">Shortly after Dennis Hof announced he was running for the Senate - a woman calling herself "Jennifer O'Kane" starts blasting all over social media that she was "raped by Dennis Hof" and inviting other victims to CONTACT HER. &nbsp;Not to CONTACT THE POLICE. &nbsp; Not to CONTACT A LAWYER. &nbsp;But to contact HER about the case. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Why?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Good question. &nbsp;She says she was "raped by Dennis Hof and she wants to build a class action lawsuit so she needs other victims to contact her". &nbsp;Interesting. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Because I've dealt with REAL sex workers and REAL trafficking victims both out of Nevada since the 1980's I know a little bit about this subject. &nbsp; Especially since I've also worked as a paralegal for 30 years now. &nbsp;Why a paralegal? &nbsp;Because most attorneys' won't go near defending one of us because of what it will do to their reputation - that's why. &nbsp;Another reason they won't is because if you're good at defending us - the government tries to put you out of business.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Take for example Mitchell J. Stein. &nbsp;His paralegal also is on the board of Safe Passage. &nbsp;They help REAL trafficking victims. &nbsp;NOT FAKE ONES like Chong Kim, Rachel Moran, Samoly Mam, and a few others I can name who are complete fabrications designed to either generate a lot of cash in donations, or spread a lot of propaganda about sex work and trafficking, or both and/or snitches. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Yes "snitches". &nbsp;Because another common tactic law enforcement uses these days is to create false "advocates" who claim to be "survivors" who use that to try and pump people out of information that's then subpoena&nbsp;and then they're forced to testify against the people they had said they were "advocating" for. &nbsp;So I'm not saying that all of these "snitches" are voluntary - some are just drug into it involuntarily</span><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;- but testify against the sex worker is still what they're doing in the end result who told them things in confidence thinking they were protected on that level and they were not. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, back in 2013, when a lot of trafficking laws were being passed, I remember a woman from Finland who came to the states claiming to be a "photojournalist". &nbsp;She claimed she was wanting to do a "photojournalist art project of sex trafficking victims" and she wanted to photograph "real" sex trafficking victims for an "international magazine spread". &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">This woman showed me a portfolio and I verified she was working at a Finnish magazine, but when she showed up to meet with me - she didn't have a camera with her. &nbsp;When I asked where it was, she said it had been "stolen from his hostel room". &nbsp;Now any PHOTOJOURNALIST I've ever met has $1,000's of dollars in equipment and they're not going to leave that in a hostel, but will pay for a room. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I suspected a "catfish" situation, so I handed her my camera. &nbsp;I asked her to show me how to operate it and she couldn't! &nbsp;I got a lame excuse about her "not knowing my camera" and then she started pushing me to meet members we'd rescued. &nbsp; I told her that if she wanted to "photograph victims" then we needed to go down to Metro and see what they were bringing into the jail about midnight. &nbsp;Then I wanted to take her to Judge Voy's courtroom and let her talk to teens there being treated like animals. &nbsp;She refused. &nbsp;Not making sense here. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I had just learned to use Google image search so I ran her portfolio through it and found that voila! &nbsp;Her photos were stock bought from three different photographers - so not hers. &nbsp;I called back the magazine who said she was there only a short time as a free "intern" and they'd never seen her work. &nbsp;I had a friend pull her cell phone records and interestingly - her phone calls for that week were only to three people. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">One was Melissa Farley and the other was Dennis Hof. &nbsp;I threatened to file charges against her for fraud which would prevent her from going back home if she didn't tell me what the hell was going on. &nbsp;So have I "threatened" people? &nbsp;You're damn right I have. &nbsp;Here's a woman asking me to be introduced to people who have ESCAPED sex trafficking which would expose their new address and appearance to being sent back to the people they just escaped from. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So yeah I wanted to know what her story was. &nbsp;Her answer was quite interesting which I got from her in writing before I agreed to not file charges and keep her in this country. &nbsp; But let's just say some people go to very extreme lengths to find out where women who have left the sex industry go when they quit and want to be left alone and not drug back into the business. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">As well as to get evidence out of your hands you have to prosecute someone with. &nbsp;It's a well known tactic I've seen to contact people who are about to file charges against someone like the police department for sex trafficking, and a "reporter" will contact them wanting to see their evidence. &nbsp;They show it and voila! &nbsp;The evidence is suddenly just gone. &nbsp;Either that or they're silenced. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I had this one pulled on me in 1984. &nbsp;I was approached by producers giving me a song and dance about a movie and a book they were going to do based on my experiences. &nbsp;I signed their contracts and nothing happened. &nbsp;When I was asked to do interviews, they told me I had signed a contract and I couldn't do so unless they approved - which they never approved. &nbsp;I had a director friend of mine contact me saying he'd heard I'm signed an agreement which basically "shut me up". &nbsp;I asked him what he was talking about and he starts laughing. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">This was before the internet readers - so you have to understand I had no idea that Republic Pictures didn't PRODUCE anything! &nbsp;They strictly marketed John Wayne movies. &nbsp;My friend educated me that what I had signed was a "silence" agreement. &nbsp;I've since seen this used on many people like "Heather" who shot Neal Falls. &nbsp;Where did she go? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">According to a call I got some supposedly her on a phone which was in her house so I believe it was her - she had also been approached by producers talk about the movies they were going to make about her, only she'd also been locked into a "silence" agreement instead!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Back to attorneys' however, look at Jeane Palfrey's attorney, Montgomery Sibley. &nbsp;He was disbarred and chased down to Florida for defending her case well at first. &nbsp;The man who defended me in my case had his life threatened more than once by people trying to get him to drop my defense. &nbsp;They confiscated&nbsp;my money so I couldn't pay him for ages also. &nbsp;If we hadn't of been family friends for years - I wouldn't have had an attorney helping me. &nbsp; But my point being I've seen the extent some people will go to in order to silence people they want to silence. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">What threw me about Jennifer's accusation against Dennis is she didn't come to me, she went to Melissa Woodward SUPPOSEDLY. &nbsp;I say "supposedly" because I've got a stack of phone numbers of real live sex workers telling me that THEY called Melissa at Awaken for help and they didn't even get a return phone call - but supposedly Jennifer not only got through to her - but got advice on what to do about Dennis raping her. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Okay.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So what was the "advice" Melissa Woodward supposedly gave Jennifer O'Hare about being raped by Dennis? &nbsp;Well the first thing I'd do of course would be to make sure she went to the nearest hospital, ER, or called an ambulance to have a rape kit taken. &nbsp;Now granted Nevada hasn't been testing rape kits for a while - but that's still what you need to do in order to gather and preserve evidence. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://endthebacklog.org/nevada">http://endthebacklog.org/nevada</a>&nbsp; Now considering how many women in Nevada, and men, have told me they've been raped, I well know that there are no laws in Nevada REQUIRING law enforcement to take, keep track of, test, etc., these kits. &nbsp;There's 1,000's of them sitting on a shelf somewhere collecting dust. &nbsp;So while yes I would tell someone to go to the nearest ER to get a rape kit taken - I personally would also advise anyone telling me they were raped in Nevada by anyone, not just Dennis Hof, but anyone, to be sure to get a duplicate set of that evidence taken, and to send it to an independent lab outside of Nevada yourself. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">What I mean by that is NOT Quest Diagnostics. &nbsp;I've seen people connected to the legal brothel industry, and sex trafficking, SHOW ME with my OWN EYES that they can alter test results out of Quest Diagnostics just by pushing a few buttons. &nbsp;They do this why? &nbsp;TO PROTECT THEMSELVES from things like DNA gathered at crime scenes, etc. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now if you can't get to a hospital right away, still go when you can. &nbsp;The other thing of course is to CALL THE POLICE AND MAKE A REPORT. &nbsp;Real simple right? &nbsp;Because the DA's office can't file a case against someone if they don't make a police report. &nbsp;The DA does NOT file CIVIL cases - only criminal. &nbsp;So for the "DA" in Nevada to have charged Dennis Hof, a police report has to be filed. &nbsp;And filed within 2 years when it's a rape accusation. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So here's where Jennifer and Melissa's story began to unravel and bother me. &nbsp;Supposedly Melissa Woodward had "advised Jennifer to go to the Pahrump DA's office and file a criminal case" against Dennis Hof. &nbsp;Okay, but the DA can't file anything without a police report first. &nbsp;Then they need evidence. &nbsp;If they don't have evidence they need a witness. &nbsp;But they need SOMETHING. &nbsp;Because if they don't get evidence, and a witness, and SOMETHING within 2 years of the rape - then the DA can't file a rape charge. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">On one hand Jennifer's telling me how "great Melissa was about taking her to the Pahrump DA's office" but then she's on the other hand telling me that (1) no police report was made, (2) no rape kit exists, and (3) no criminal charges filed. &nbsp;I mean the DA can't just file a charge on someone - you need EVIDENCE and they won't file unless there's enough EVIDENCE to prosecute someone.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Jennifer tells me that she "escaped the rape by trying to climb out a window of the Bunny Ranch but then the other women beat her up so badly she couldn't get out". &nbsp;But that after they beat her up, she managed to get out of the Bunny Ranch who LOCKS THEIR GATES and where it's AGAINST THE LAW TO LEAVE AT NIGHT because of curfew laws. &nbsp;I asked her how she got out of the locked gates and considering the curfew laws - how did she get off the property then? &nbsp;Then she says "oh the police were called". &nbsp;Well which is it? &nbsp;I'm getting conflicting stories here. &nbsp;Which is not uncommon in rape and trauma victims - so that's not the problem here for me. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But if the "other women" at the ranch beat her up, then THEY need to have police reports filed for assault and battery then. &nbsp;Now if I was Melissa Woodward and I heard that "the other women beat me up so I couldn't leave" then I might advise Jennifer to file a police report against THOSE women for beating me up! &nbsp;Because they're also witnesses to the rape right? &nbsp;Meaning you'll need their names - which you can then get off the police report. &nbsp;But I'm again now hearing there's "no police report". &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The DA is not going to again file a civil case against Dennis. &nbsp;That's something a PRIVATE attorney has to do. &nbsp;So in midstream Jennifer now claims it's a "civil action" she's filed against Dennis in the Pahrump court. &nbsp;Okay that means that an attorney who is LICENSED TO PRACTICE IN PAHRUMP, and willing to go up against a judge who has been sitting on that bench for who knows how long. &nbsp;Only that's just it - there's only ONE judge in Pahrump. &nbsp;Now I've spoken to EVERY attorney who is licensed to appear in Pahrump (it's a short list) and NOT A ONE OF THEM IS WILLING TO SUE DENNIS HOF. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If you want to know what type of cases the DA up in Pahrump sues over - check out the court calendar for that town: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.pahrumpjusticecourt.com/">https://www.pahrumpjusticecourt.com/</a>&nbsp; What I see is a very very LONG list of people trying to get restraining orders. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;But take a close look - and do you see an attorney in there also suing for a civil case on these cases? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So to sue Dennis Hof you would have to bring in an outside attorney - someone from outside of Nevada who then has to get himself admitted to the Bar so he can then sue Dennis - which takes an out of state attorney. &nbsp;I also know from experience that the Nevada DA's are not willing to sue ANYONE from the brothels either. &nbsp;Again I know because WE'VE TALKED TO THEM. &nbsp; To find a DA willing to prosecute the owners of the Shady Lady for what they were doing to the women there - we had to make a special arrangement&nbsp;with the CA US Attorney's office to do so.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Meaning if Melissa Woodward advised Jennifer to do what Jennifer is saying she did - she's either an idiot or lying or someone is yanking her chain because it just won't work that way. &nbsp;And why Jennifer would then be PRAISING Melissa Woodward for sending her on a wild goose chase that led nowhere in the real world - I sure as hell have no idea. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Because there's another problem in that WHO IS GOING TO REPORT ON IT? &nbsp;Up until recently, I've talked to the staff who was at the Review Journal up until the sale of the paper a few years ago. &nbsp;NO ONE at the RJ up until the sale of the paper would DARE &nbsp;have published a story like this. &nbsp;Not without PROOF to back up every single word Jennifer said as being true. &nbsp;In fact, I don't know ANY reputable reporter who WOULD print a story like "Dennis Hof raped me and I'm suing him in court" who wouldn't say "can I see the paperwork please?" before agreeing to print the story.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So I'm asking Jennifer for the paperwork and she's not giving it to me - but she's asking me to believe her. &nbsp;But ANY reputable reporter is going to do the same thing. &nbsp;So this is a question that if you want to be BELIEVED, &nbsp;then you're going to need paperwork. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">She tells me that "Monica Foster and Desi Foxx all know about my case". &nbsp;I've never met Monica Foster in person. &nbsp;Sure I've seen some pretty crazy videos she has online, but I've NEVER met this woman in person. &nbsp;As for Desi, she used to have a lot of "anti-sex trafficking" websites up, but the woman never returned my phone calls and so I never met her in person either. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">And yes, Monica and Desi are printing some pretty elaborate stories about the so called "Dennis rape". &nbsp;But I'm not seeing any PROOF. &nbsp;I see a twitter post up about "here's my case number" supposedly, only when you open up the picture it's a letter from Dennis Hof's attorney telling her to "knock it off". &nbsp;I can't say I blame him. &nbsp;You don't go around saying someone "raped you" unless you have some kind of proof. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So I contacted Dennis personally and asked him about Jennifer - to which he then did something illegal for any employer, or doctor even to do. &nbsp;He then started telling me about Jennifer's "psychiatric history" basically and other personal medical issues about her and saying that's why he hasn't sued her yet to shut her up was because he was "feeling sorry for her and she needed help". &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">You know what? &nbsp;If Jennifer was a secretary who worked for Dennis at one point in time and started telling everyone about her personal medical history like that - that's illegal. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But it didn't stop Dennis from posting other very PERSONAL details about past employees with Desi either if you note this article here - &nbsp;<a href="http://therealpornwikileaks.com/bunny-ranch-owner-dennis-hof-tells-trpwl-all-about-desi-foxx/">http://therealpornwikileaks.com/bunny-ranch-owner-dennis-hof-tells-trpwl-all-about-desi-foxx/</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">You know what? &nbsp;The sex industry likes to say "this is an industry" but then they don't want to FOLLOW INDUSTRY LAWS". &nbsp;Meaning if this was ANY other type of business, you don't go shooting off your mouth about your past employees medical conditions, or things that led to their termination from your employ without expecting to get hit with a lawsuit. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Which is why I've been saying for over 25 years now that the legal brothels in Nevada either need to have a UNION or they need to have an ADVOCATE, because they don't follow basic employment laws that any other employer has to follow while also claiming to be a "legitimate business". &nbsp;Only you leave the employ of the brothels and guess what? &nbsp;You're going to get blasted all over the internet - that's what. &nbsp;Because I've seen other ex-employees of the ranches have their bosses totally violate labor laws by posting details about THEIR version about why this person left that is completely illegal. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But yes I was seeing all over the internet how Monica and Desi were siding with Jennifer over this rape. &nbsp;Only for MONTHS I asked to get a name, a phone number, a report, SOMETHING - and got nothing.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But boy Jennifer wanted to know if we knew anyone else who had been raped or harmed by Dennis Hof REAL bad. &nbsp;She said she was trying to "file a class action lawsuit". &nbsp;Okay that requires a special attorney. &nbsp;That also requires FIVE &nbsp;people with EVIDENCE &nbsp;and WITNESSES. &nbsp;So she's asking me to introduce her to people I know that have this, but she's not showing me anything back. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Then I get a call months later from her saying "I have a case number". &nbsp;Okay what is it? &nbsp;It wasn't a case number. &nbsp; Then it was - oh that's my attorney's phone number who is prosecuting the case. &nbsp;Okay who is your attorney? &nbsp;She won't tell me but she wants me to call this phone number AND have other victims call this number. &nbsp;Again, why would I expose other people to being identified until I've verified this story is even real? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I had the shock of the century when I met a reporter last night for the Review Journal who is part of a new hire that I believe is a REAL investigative journalist. &nbsp;Someone who would DO HIS HOMEWORK but also publish the truth if he saw it. &nbsp;He says he "wants to talk to anyone victimized&nbsp;in Nevada". &nbsp;Okay well let's let him talk to Jennifer. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Her phone is disconnected. &nbsp;Her twitter account is down. &nbsp;I go to Monica's social media and the only thing up are some youtube video. &nbsp;I found all media for Desi Fox has just disappeared also. &nbsp;All of Desi's old sites go to porn sites now that don't even have her name on them. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">What does that mean? &nbsp;I don't know. &nbsp;Maybe they're all hiding in fear or maybe it was another catfish bullshit story designed to flush out REAL victims so they could be threatened into silence before Dennis runs for Senate. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So Jennifer, Desi or Monica - I have found a REAL reporter who will publish the FACTS, if you have them, in Nevada, which has been impossible to do for the last 10 years - and if you have information for him to review I'm sure he'd review it. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But you're nowhere to be found. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Moral?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If you're raped in Nevada - call an ambulance or go to ER and get a rape kit done. &nbsp; Get a second set of evidence to take to an outside of Nevada lab that isn't Quest Diagnostics. &nbsp;That's the FIRST thing to do. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Or call the police. &nbsp;They have to also make sure an ambulance is called to do a medical exam if you're raped. &nbsp;Get a report. &nbsp;Get a copy of that report. &nbsp;Then make sure you take it to the local DA's office who, like in the OJ case, is going to tell you you'll need a good attorney to file a civil case. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;Because there's evidence you can't get for a criminal case that you can get if a civil case is going. &nbsp;Remember, OJ lost on the criminal case but won on the civil case. &nbsp;So they're DIFFERENT. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">You have only TWO YEARS to file a complaint within or that's it - it's over. &nbsp;You also have to realize if you sue a corporation, there's also other laws which mean you might have to get permission to sue them before you can sue them. &nbsp;If the police are involved, you have only six months time to file a complaint. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But remember this, on the show "Cathouse", a prison guard in Nevada was uncovered as also being an actor on that show and it cost him his job. &nbsp;Dennis has friends with people like John Hambrick - men who men like Chris Edwards in the house are saying are "intimidating" him and "bullying their way into the speaker of the house" seat - his words not mine. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Joohoon David Lee, with Homeland Security, ICE and the trafficking task force is now driving a limo with CLS limo, the same limo service Dennis uses. &nbsp; Joohoon is IMMUNE from prosecution for sex trafficking because he did it while ON THE JOB. &nbsp;Catch this - IMMUNE FROM PROSECUTION. &nbsp;The only thing he could be charged with was bribery by a Mr. H. (whoever that is). &nbsp;A "Mr. H" who wasn't charged at all in that case. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Dennis is&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: large;">running for Senate. &nbsp;He's donated checks to the US Attorney. &nbsp;In other words, he has a lot of "friends" so do you really think you should go walking to the the Pahrump's police, court or DA's office to make a complaint without a really good lawyer, and a really good recorder, going.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The KARDASHIAN PRESS PERSON during the Lamar Odom case has told the world Dennis told her to "shut the fuck up" and didn't care about what the PR person for the Kardashians' said because he knew he was going to have the ears of the press, not her.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now, do you REALLY think you should be going up there rattling cages unless you had a really good team of backup behind you first? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Why do you think we operate this hotline at www.sexworkersanonymous.com? &nbsp;If you need help, and something has happened to you and I don't care WHO did it to you - you contact us for help and you'll get that help. &nbsp;Most important I know that we know how to GET you that help - not send you off on wild goose chases and then a few months down the road you've disappeared off social media. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Great job Melissa Woodward. &nbsp;You really showed Jennifer O'Kane how to prosecute Dennis Hof for rape! &nbsp;You really "advocated" for Jennifer didn't you? &nbsp;Only, as usual, I don't see jack shit in reality out of you Melissa but that everyone's gone and I don't see any charges - so like usual I don't know what the hell you're doing over at Awaken but the victims who call me for help say you don't lift a finger to help them.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now maybe you help some burned out street prostitutes that are cast off's of the legal brothels - but you sure as hell don't seem to do a finger for someone trying to get out of the sex industry in Nevada. &nbsp;If you did - where's Jennifer? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Where's Dennis being "drug off in handcuffs"?&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now I think Dennis revealing private medical information about an ex-employee was illegal and wrong. &nbsp;But I sure as hell don't see him being arrested for rape - so one has to ask - WHY was Jennifer all over social media trying to get "other" victims to come forward? &nbsp;Where are they?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-66814686206297301232017-08-15T22:46:00.001-07:002017-08-15T22:48:22.339-07:00TALK TO BRIAN JOSEPH<span style="font-size: large;">Okay you've read the "trash Jody" site up at www.sexworkersanonymous.org and you don't know what to think. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">(again don't visit that site from your computer - go to a public internet cafe or library and use a public computer on a public internet to visit that site.)</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I've told you everything on there is a lie, and that certain people behind it are using that site to try and capture the IP address of everyone who comes to our site. &nbsp;I say I can show you PROOF that the two women who claim to be behind that website were "snitches". &nbsp;Plain and simple. &nbsp;That's what that website is - that site is being used to relay information on who is reaching out to us for help in order to capture information I won't give to the police, the FBI, CIA, or anyone else in law enforcement.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">You don't know WHAT to believe. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So what do you do?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I know this - for TEN YEARS I've not found a reporter who was willing to tell the truth, even if it cost him his job. &nbsp;Even if it meant he was going to have his life threatened. &nbsp;Because for 10 years I've had reporters tell me they can't publish the stories I've brought them because either they would "be fired" or they were being threatened into silence if they tried. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I've found a lot of "fake" reporters who say they want to tell your story, who use that to get you to sign releases that then are used by lawyers to shut you up. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I've found reporters who say they'll print your story and then they chicken out the minute their job, or their lives, are threatened. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I've found reporters who tell you they're going to tell your story to get at your evidence which then disappears overnight. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So since about 2007 - I haven't been able to find ONE reporter that I believe would tell the truth if he heard it. &nbsp;Not one that COULD anyway, because for ten years I've had a lot of reporters tell me they "can't" because again either they'd be "fired" or they've been threatened with harm if they tried. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It doesn't matter much if you tell your story to a reporter that no one listens to.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I met a man today that's changed my mind and given me hope again in the press. &nbsp;After talking to him I realized I might have even been wrong about Sheldon Adelson. &nbsp;I'm not sure yet on that point - but I might be wrong. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I say that because for a few years - every time I got told by someone they were either fired, or threatened, because of a connection to us - the name Sheldon Adelson kept coming up time after time after time. &nbsp;Sheldon hired them, or gave them grant money, or donated to them or owned their company - but that name just kept coming up time and time again. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I even had someone deliver me a message right to my face that "Sheldon Adelson says you're blacklisted with any of his media for life and it doesn't matter how many victims die because they didn't know how to reach you for help". &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Tom Ragan, and the reporter who was with him, who tried to do a story on us in May of 2013, was fired for trying not only to publish that story, but for trying to expose the fraud that was going on in Nevada with respect to the trafficking grant money. &nbsp;Grant money that wasn't making it to the victim. &nbsp; Both he and the photographer told me it was because of "Sheldon Adelson" so that tends to make me believe the lady who told me Sheldon had "blacklisted me" from all press he was connected to.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Only there's been a real house cleaning over at the Review Journal. &nbsp;When I met with Brian tonight, he told me that he was told that Sheldon himself had said he "wanted to build the best investigative team in the country", and that's why he, and the new editor over at the RJ, were hired. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now in a all fairness, did Sheldon do all of that stuff, or is it possible that other people used his name to blame him? &nbsp;I don't know - so I wrote him a letter a few years ago asking him to agree to meet with me in person to address just that question. &nbsp;I also asked him for that because I'd had quite a few people lie about me. &nbsp;The lies on www.sexworkersanonymous.org are a good example. &nbsp;I had someone impersonating me and doing some of the things spoken about on that site. &nbsp;It wasn't me - but it was someone CLAIMING to be me. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So in all fairness to Sheldon, how did I know if these things WERE him, or just using his name? &nbsp;How do I know the threat came from Sheldon himself, or someone SAYING it came from him?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I don't.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Which is why I wrote him a few years ago and asked for a meeting so we could talk over what really was him and what was really me. &nbsp;Because if people are lying about me - they're probably lying about him also. &nbsp;The only way I thought I could figure this out was to meet with him and ask him. &nbsp;I told him how all these reporters were telling me it was because of HIM they were afraid to publish any stories on our work with real victims - not phony victims made up to get grant money, not people trying to plug some picture, but REAL sex workers with REAL STORIES TO TELL that reporters were telling me they "couldn't publish" and blaming Sheldon.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Brian tells me that about the same time as I sent that letter to Sheldon asking to meet with me and tell me to my face if in fact he was blacklisting us, was when Brian had said was about when Sheldon &nbsp;had started saying he "wanted to build the best investigative team in the country" at the Review Journal, and hired people like him, to counter which admittedly had been a bad reputation for printing false stories at the RJ at that point. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I mean Tom being fired &nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: large;">when he tried to expose some of those fake stories didn't help the reputation &nbsp;at the RJ either. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Brian Joseph on Muck Rack" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.muckrack.com/profile/images/258025/brian-joseph.jpeg.256x256_q100_crop-smart.jpg" /></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So you know what? &nbsp;Logically I don't think someone who was doing these sorts of things would try and assemble the "best investigative team in the country". &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I looked at Brian's history and it's impressive. &nbsp;So are the histories of some of the other NEW people over at the RJ now. &nbsp;Again, I don't think if Sheldon was in fact trying to hide something he'd bring in a team that could expose that. &nbsp;That's not how predators act. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But maybe Brian was another shill and believe me I've seen those over the years. &nbsp;They come in asking to "speak to one of your victims" and in reality it's been a ruse to find out where they are - having nothing to do with printing their story! &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The only way to tell if someone is a "shill" or for "real" is to meet someone face to face and watch their eyes carefully when you talk to them. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So I went to meet with Brian and I'm convinced. &nbsp;Now I'm printing his photo because not only have I been impersonated online, I've had people showing up at events claiming to be me that weren't me. &nbsp;I've talked to other people who have had the same thing happen in this field. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So if the guy you're talking to or meeting ISN'T the guy in this picture - then that's not Brian Joseph.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now if you don't want to call me about your situation because you don't know what to believe - then call Brian.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">&nbsp;<a href="https://muckrack.com/brian-joseph">https://muckrack.com/brian-joseph</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;He's over at the Review Journal now in Nevada.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Tell HIM your story. &nbsp;Because it's been a while since I met a reporter who would really stick by a story and get the story PRINTED. &nbsp;And PRINTED WHERE IT COUNTS. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I believe Brian Joseph can do that. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I asked him if he can break these confidentiality contracts many of you are being threatened with into silence.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">He has lawyers and he can. &nbsp; I believe that also. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So if you don't want to call me - fine.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Call Brian. &nbsp;Tell him your story. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-71622025597477317892017-08-15T22:09:00.002-07:002017-08-15T22:10:35.844-07:00HERE'S HOW THEY OPERATE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AslRHS2G-ls/WZN3MFv3mPI/AAAAAAAACo8/4ckg66OrsF4r2UBxEet-GkFH1KrLkqzmACLcBGAs/s1600/PROOFPHOTO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="178" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AslRHS2G-ls/WZN3MFv3mPI/AAAAAAAACo8/4ckg66OrsF4r2UBxEet-GkFH1KrLkqzmACLcBGAs/s320/PROOFPHOTO.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Check out this screen shot. &nbsp;It says that the "DOJ is trying to get the IP addresses of people who visited a Trump protest site". &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">They refused. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">That's how these people operate. &nbsp;Only in some cases they get creative at how they get the information they want. &nbsp;But I posted this screen shot to show you THEY WANT YOUR IP ADDRESS.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">In 2007, I was approached and asked if I would accept money monthly in exchange for "sharing information" on what I hear operating the hotline for www.sexworkersanonymous.com</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I refused. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I take great pains to make sure the phone calls into our hotline are protected from being "tapped" also. &nbsp;If you've heard of devices like this one <a href="https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/184597-stingray-the-fake-cell-phone-tower-cops-and-providers-use-to-track-your-every-move">https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/184597-stingray-the-fake-cell-phone-tower-cops-and-providers-use-to-track-your-every-move</a> &nbsp;- you know that it's easy to have someone overhear your phone calls. &nbsp;I began to suspect they were using this on my phone because it kept going dead. &nbsp;One "tale tell sign" that this device is being used on you - is the battery will suddenly be drained on your phone. &nbsp;I was charging my phone and then literally five minutes later, my phone would be dead. &nbsp;I thought it was the phone, but the phone guy said "nope it's fine". &nbsp;He's the one who then gave me an article about this "sting ray" and told me it was probably being used on me as to the mysterious battery drain. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So for reasons like this "stingray" that people can use to over hear phone calls illegally - our hotline is tied to a land line. &nbsp;That means that you have to get a federal warrant in order to listen to, or record, any phone call to our hotline that's signed by a judge. &nbsp;Which means you have to have "probably cause". &nbsp;<b>Which you're not going to get that on a 12 step hotline like ours. &nbsp;</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So even if calls to our hotline are illegally listened in on - they can't be used in court against anyone who calls our hotline for help.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Which is why they offered me money to become an "informant" on the people who call us for help. &nbsp;I refused. &nbsp;Other operators of other hotlines haven't refused - but that's their problem. &nbsp;We however refused money to relay information about the callers to our hotline to ANYONE. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So these &nbsp;people did a few things - one included creating "fake groups" where you're supposed to get help to get out of sex work. &nbsp;They advertise "oh come here and we'll give you money" and other such lures. &nbsp;They get you to talk to them about what's going on and the whole time they're gathering evidence to use against YOU. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now some people have reported to me that these same people, once they found out that they had evidence against their trafficker, that they got "visits" from these people to "help" - only to find out that their evidence from stolen from them!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Or they then they tell you that "if you help them" meaning "become an informant" THEN you get the help. &nbsp;It's very simple - they tell you &nbsp;IF you put your pimp behind bars - THEN they'll give you a college degree. pay your rent, give you a lawyer, yada yada yada - but again that's IF you agree to help them testify like Margo Compton did in her trafficking case. &nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But what you get in reality is a whole other story. &nbsp;</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">And trust me - if the person who was involved in trafficking you was involved with our own government or law enforcement, you're not getting squat.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But you all caught on to that. &nbsp;</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Those of you who know you are actually involved in a true trafficking situation KNOW you aren't going to get the help you need just as I knew that back in 1984 from these people - not when it means going up against their "own"! &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">You got a black pimp? &nbsp;Sure. &nbsp;They'll lock him up. &nbsp;But then again only if he's small potatoes. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If he's someone like Mally Mall - then no - you won't get help. &nbsp;If you doubt that - check out the latest story from George Knapp. &nbsp;Then ask yourself has Mally Mall been charged, or even arrested for ANYTHING to date? &nbsp;<a href="http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-former-cop-suspected-pimp-linked-together-in-fbi-investigation/607916728">http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-former-cop-suspected-pimp-linked-together-in-fbi-investigation/607916728</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So what did these cops, FBI, CIA and other governmental people who wanted information on who calls us do when I refused to allow them into our program and our hotline?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Take a look at the above article that shows you the DOJ has asked for the IP addresses of people who visited that site so they can identify them. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Okay, now what if, and I mean WHAT IF the very people you're running from are "partners" with a company that you would visit IF you were trying to report a trafficking situation OR if you were trying to get help to get away from such a situation? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Which is why these people are so hot to get ahold of who it is that calls our hotline - because they're trying to seal up all the exit avenues one would call for help if in that situation. &nbsp;They want to know where you go, who you talk to, where you're hiding, etc. &nbsp;But if I'm not releasing the information to these people - then how would they get it?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Think for a moment how you use the internet when you're thinking about getting help for anything - even if it's a carpet cleaning service or a mechanic. &nbsp;What do you do? &nbsp;You check them out online right? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">You go to their site and you talk to them. &nbsp;Then you go and check out their reviews. &nbsp;You look up maybe who their customers have been. &nbsp;You try and see what other people say about that company right?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But we all know that can be manipulated. &nbsp;You've probably heard about the lawsuit against YELP not long ago because they were supposedly posting bad reviews against any company who didn't buy advertising from them, and then promising to remove them only if the company bought ads. &nbsp;So they know that people who are thinking about using your service or business or buying your product are going to check you out online.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So if someone is thinking about contacting US - then what do they do? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">They "check us out" right?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Meaning if you go on Google and then you'll find a site at www.sexworkersanonymous.org &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">On this site you'll see a photo of the mail box address I use for mail at 3395 S. Jones Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89146. &nbsp;Here's a screen shot from that site of my mail box address. &nbsp;Meaning these people went to that address physically to take that photo.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SyzgprqQtRI/WZPJjn472GI/AAAAAAAACpY/fzxHinFqP9AR1EsXgc3P8_OdsKHJrQ_RACLcBGAs/s1600/SEXWORKERSANONYMOUSORG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="178" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SyzgprqQtRI/WZPJjn472GI/AAAAAAAACpY/fzxHinFqP9AR1EsXgc3P8_OdsKHJrQ_RACLcBGAs/s320/SEXWORKERSANONYMOUSORG.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;">You can see the url for their website in the browser window - so you can see these photos are from that site. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Meaning someone went over to that address to not only check out if I lived there, but then they took photos and posted them online.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But I'm not being stalked by these people now am I?</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Let's just think logically for a moment now - WHY would I put my home address online KNOWING that THIS is EXACTLY what pimps do the minute one of their victims goes missing?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">A victim, male or female, calls me for help to get the hell out of Dodge and then she's gone. &nbsp;The pimp knows she last called us for help so what's going to be HIS FIRST MOVE?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">To go to my site, take my address down and come pay me a visit. <b>&nbsp;That's what his first move is going to be</b>.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So knowing this, and believe me after learning this the hard way after a pimp put a gun to my ribs asking me "where's my bitch at?", why on earth would I post my home address up online? &nbsp;Doing what I do and knowing what I know why on earth would I put my home address online?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now let me ask you a second question - if you were a victim wanting to get away from a pimp and you knew that he was just going to follow you, and you knew that if you went somewhere that he could find you, he'd kill you - don't you think you'd want to know how well that person, or group, could help to hide you from this pimp?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">These people behind this site tried for MONTHS to find out where I lived physically. &nbsp;They went through legal records. &nbsp;They went online asking people where I lived. &nbsp;They tried phony accusations of me supposedly "stalking and threatening" them to get the police to help them find out where I lived so they could arrest me (which was a ruse to find out where I lived using the police to help them), &nbsp;they hired private investigators (as you can see by the pics), and they tried EVERYTHING they think of and THAT is all they came up with? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A photo of my mail box.</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now just think logically for a minute here - how could I help someone disappear from a pimp if I myself was so easy to find as these people tried to do and FAILED?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">What they did dear readers is prove to anyone out there wondering if I can help THEM to disappear - is that YES I CAN. &nbsp;Because how could I honestly be able to look a victim in the eye and tell them that I can help hide them from JUST THESE PEOPLE who play games like posting up fake ass websites, with fake complaints, and doctored up records, and lies upon lies, all to try and do one thing which is what? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Find out where you are.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But to find out who is calling me if I won't release that information - where does that leave them?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It's leaves them trying to get you to go onto their website so they can grab your IP address. &nbsp;From that, they can get your address and who you're staying with, and even your device information. &nbsp;If you're on a smart phone - they can even track your movements. &nbsp;I've been looking at technology that shows they can even send fake "spoofed" text messages to your phone without knowing your phone number!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now g</span><span style="font-size: large;">o to a library computer or some place safe that's not your computer, go to a commercial computer at a Fed Ex store, or a library, or some other place THAT'S NOT YOUR COMPUTER OR YOUR PHONE (because they can track the devices you use), and from a public computer at a public internet address so they can't trace it back to you - I want you to then go back to that site at www.sexworkersanonymous.org and look for a "privacy policy". &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">You won't find one. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I state very clearly on all of our media, website, flyers, etc., that "we are not connected with law enforcement in any way". &nbsp;I am very open that we are protected under the same laws that protect anyone in Alcoholics Anonymous, or Narcotics Anonymous, because of the laws governing "anonymity" at 12 step groups. &nbsp;I have gone one step further and got myself ordained, so anything you tell us when you call is either going to me as an ordained minister, or I have any of our other volunteers who answer the phone are also ordained, that way anything you say to us is just as protected legally as if you were to be speaking to your doctor or lawyer. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Do they? &nbsp;Do the people who operate that website identify what they're doing with your IP address once you visit that site to "check us out"? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Who is really behind that site? </b>&nbsp;Why don't you go and check out who took our other IP address at www.sexworkersanonymous.net &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Again, please use a commercial computer, because what you'll find there is a porn site. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">That site trying to organize a Trump protest is new. &nbsp;They haven't been around as long as me - so when the DOJ comes at them trying to get the IP information of the people who visited their site - it's going to make news. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But if &nbsp;they were to keep that site up over time, they might find themselves in the same position as myself, or in a position I've also heard done - whereas Trump's people themselves might just set up a "protest Trump" site and then see who comes. &nbsp;It's a lot easier that way - pose as protestors, and gather up information. &nbsp;They've been doing it since the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King, etc. &nbsp;If you don't believe me - check out the film "Cointelpro 101" about how these people have been informants for years and years that's just now coming to light. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Only I won't inform. &nbsp;So what's left? &nbsp;They're gathering up the IP addresses of people thinking about coming to us for help off that site - that gives you no answer as to who is behind that site. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Because that's what's being done on that site at www.sexworkersanonymous.org and us - the "opposition" is trying to do everything they can to make sure you don't call us. &nbsp;Those who do decide to call us, and then go and try and check out information on us before calling us - these people want to know who you are and that site is how they're gathering that information.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">How do you think I found out about it? &nbsp;I had a "friendly white hacker" contact me to tell me how that site was rigged and what was going on. &nbsp;They're the ones who showed me how it's being used to gather information on who contacts us for their own purposes. &nbsp;I don't know if it's still there - but at that time they showed me how a "cookie" was attached to your site the minute you landed on their page that then traced your every move. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">And then they claim I'm "crazy and paranoid" when I say that I'm being stalked and threatened because we do help people get out that want out. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Really? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Take another look at that picture of my mail box and then ask youself - how did they get the pictures of that box and why? &nbsp;If someone wasn't trying to drive by and find out where I lived - then why are the photos up there? &nbsp;I mean what would have happened if I'd been home and that was my home address? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">But they didn't find my home did they? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Which means if I can hide myself so &nbsp;I can probably hide you too. &nbsp;</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>That's what they confirmed - is that if I can hide myself from them then I sure as hell can hide you too. &nbsp;</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><br />LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-57597266060610326022017-08-15T15:01:00.003-07:002017-08-15T15:01:56.604-07:00HOW THEY OPERATEFINALLY!!!<br /><br />FINALLY the truth comes out about how people like Sheldon operate! &nbsp;Read this article carefully because it's a handbook in how people like him operate to get what they want, and how they attack their enemies!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-the-las-vegas-review-journal-unmasked-its-owners">http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-the-las-vegas-review-journal-unmasked-its-owners</a>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-12328795002330724942017-08-13T13:23:00.000-07:002017-08-13T13:23:10.808-07:00HOW PIMPS BRAINWASH - NOW TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR MEDIA ON YOUR TV<div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These videos demonstrate how pimps/traffickers "brainwash" their victims into thinking they're acting of their own free will.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meaning no you don't ASK a victim "are you being trafficked?" or "are you here against your will?" because guess what?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They will say they ARE there "of their own free will". &nbsp;</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So anyone who teaches you to "ask questions" of trafficking victims to determine if they are in fact trafficking victims, is either talking about the street level of pimps which is a whole other apple vs. orange, is either yanking your chain because they clearly don't understand the subject, or they're misleading you. &nbsp;</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Let me ask you something - don't most abusive people put on a "respectable" act? &nbsp;Didn't the CEO's of big tobacco get up in front of Congress and LIE about the vindictiveness&nbsp;and damage of their products? &nbsp;John Wayne Gacy was a children's clown at parties. &nbsp;The BTK Killer was a deacon at the church. &nbsp;Hitler claimed he was "saving Germany". &nbsp;I mean it's all part of the dynamic that the abusers, serial killers, or just downright 'evil" people depending&nbsp;on what you're looking at do a few things and have a few things in common.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1. &nbsp; &nbsp;They claim they're "good respectable" people. &nbsp; They do volunteer work, or donate a lot of money, or hold positions of respect like the priests who molest children. &nbsp;So one common thing evil does is pretend not to be evil.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">2. &nbsp; &nbsp;They all build up their "supporters" who will say "oh that person would never do such a thing" when the shit hits the fan. &nbsp;Michael Jackson donated HUGE amounts of money to childrens' charities and then invited terminal kids out to his ranch to come play. &nbsp;That's how he got all these people depending upon him financially who all went "oh he'd never do a thing like that" when the accusation hits the air waves. &nbsp;Hitler had a lot of building projects going on and other such things where people were dependent&nbsp;upon&nbsp;them financially.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The church for example would go into very poor areas where there were no doctors or medical care and build hospitals and had doctors and midwives in very poor areas so that the whole town was dependent upon them for medical care. &nbsp;This way if a priest's "indiscretions" hit the fan there were a lot of people who were dependent&nbsp;upon that money or the medical care. &nbsp;This way they got to all the "unwanted" babies they got to adopt out for a lot of money to wealthy families and thus build more alliances. &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">3. &nbsp;They try and pick victims no one will "believe" or "align" with. &nbsp;They find the loner kid who has no friends and his family isn't involved in his life. &nbsp;They target the drug addicts, the mentally ill, the unloved, the unwanted, the ones no one likes, the unattractive one, or basically someone either no one cares about or one that no one would believe what they say. &nbsp;They don't pick the "popular" one, but the one who has no support network. &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So you have to realize that TRUE &nbsp;traffickers/pimps, etc. don't appear to be so. &nbsp;They're not walking around like "huggy bear" from Starsky and Hutch or looking like Bishop Don Juan. &nbsp;When Snoop Dogg was doing his "pimp revival tour" during 2003 - he wasn't in Rolling Stone BRAGGING about it! &nbsp;No, that only came after the statute had passed and he was pretty sure the witnesses had all been sufficiently&nbsp;silenced&nbsp;as well as no state prosecutor was going to take him on legally.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">With everyone running around TRYING to find "traffickers", this man got up and ADMITTED he had been trafficking women for a year across the USA and what did the state prosecutors do? &nbsp;Not a damn thing! &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;Would you want to have another OJ trial on your hands? &nbsp;Spend all that money and then lose? &nbsp;Think about it - NO ONE wanted to do a repeat of the OJ trial. &nbsp;Plus Snoop's making a lot of money for a lot of people - so who's going to care about a few "hookers" right? &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">What do some of the traditional traffickers do? &nbsp;They promise that the victims are "going to find better jobs" or "marry a rich American husband", etc. &nbsp;They don't say "oh hey we're going to have you screwing 10 different men a day and taking your money away from you" etc. &nbsp;Oh no - so there's always the layer of "denial" where the victim thinks it's something else entirely than what it is. &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Think about it - the abused women doesn't usually walk around thinking "I"m an abused woman". &nbsp;No - she thinks "I'm trying to work on my marriage"? &nbsp;and "when he gets a job things are going to straight out - this is just temporary" or "he was just drunk that night", etc. &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">That's how it works - so DON'T think you're going to walk up to someone and say "hey are you being trafficked" and have that person go "oh yeah please help me". &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Take a look at how brainwashing works in reality, and then take a real good look at your social media like Facebook, Twitter, or Alex from Amazon where you're talking to your TV set. &nbsp;Remember, that means someone is on the other end of &nbsp;that box listening to everything you say, EVERYTHING. &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">You say "well I'm not hiding anything" but that's not the dangerous part. &nbsp;Take a look at how CONDITIONING works to brainwash someone properly:</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaHbACoYNSA</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6v5A2KdiUo</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2vYIgPdKg</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">There's a great clip in the Will Smith movie "Focus" where he shows how he got a guy to pick a number he thought was his number on a bet, but in reality Will's character had "convinced" him to pick that number.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Now, if this was a real life scene, if you asked that guy "Hey were you tricked into picking that number?" he'd say "yes" or he would say "oh no I picked that number of my own free will?"</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">But if REAL trafficking victims don't know they're trafficking victims - then outreach becomes a whole other matter doesn't it?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">One that probably won't get the real victims picking up their phone after seeing a billboard and calling the National Trafficking Hotline now would they? &nbsp;I mean if they're in denial they're victims - why would they call a hotline for victims? &nbsp;</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Kind of puts a whole other spin on then why is Google donating $20 million dollars to a hotline that real victims won't call because they don't believe their real victims?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Do you know what one of the fastest growing cons is though in this country now? &nbsp;Oh my pimp is trafficking me and I need money to get away from him. &nbsp;</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Does anyone remember the film "Risky Business"? &nbsp;You know the one with Tom Cruise?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Does anyone remember how the hooker in that film was running away from her pimp and she needed money?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">In the last movie Robin Williams made, the guy he loved was being beaten up by this "pimp" and Robin gave the guy all this money to leave the other one alone.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Am I saying anyone who says they were trafficked is lying? &nbsp;No I'm not saying that. &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm saying "it's not that simple". &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm also saying if most true victims don't know they're victims - they aren't going to call the National Trafficking Hotline. &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">For an alcoholic to go to an AA meeting, he has to first admit he's an alcoholic doesn't he? &nbsp;Certainly without intervention anyway when he's in denial right?</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">THINK about it! &nbsp;</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-53947578929229313132017-06-29T21:12:00.002-07:002017-06-29T21:12:33.872-07:00EXPLAINS EVERYTHING<a href="http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-former-cop-suspected-pimp-linked-together-in-fbi-investigation/607916728">http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-former-cop-suspected-pimp-linked-together-in-fbi-investigation/607916728</a>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-39805793387406446292017-06-19T16:34:00.000-07:002017-06-19T17:14:41.236-07:00MEMOIRS OF A MADAM - THE ANATOMY OF A MOVEMENTWell I finally got my memoirs done. &nbsp;I realized the only way it was going to be told WITHOUT BEING ALTERED OR CHANGED was going to be to self-publish. &nbsp;I wasn't able to register "Anatomy of a Movement" for a domain which is the title of the book - but I was able to register "Memoirs of a Madam". &nbsp;Maybe I need to rethink the title? &nbsp;I still haven't done a print run yet so there's time if that's what I need to do.<br /><div><br /></div><div>But yes I see "Snowfall" is coming out finally validating what I've been saying for all these years - that our CIA was behind the importation of cocaine into this country - NOT the African American gangs. &nbsp;One of the biggest hoaxes of our time has been revealed. &nbsp;</div><div><br /></div><div>You'd think right? &nbsp;The UN court did find our country guilty in that finally.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/profile-north.php">https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/profile-north.php</a></div><div><br /></div><div>But guess what? &nbsp;It's not over. &nbsp;Nor are they done blaming the African American community either. &nbsp;Only instead of smuggling cocaine into this country -<b> they're now doing fund raising for sex trafficking victims. &nbsp;</b><br /><b><br /></b>But just as they blamed the black gangs for the coke problem in the 1980's, and other minorities - they were also using sex trafficking to mask their further demonization of the African American communities. &nbsp;Wonder where the racism is? &nbsp;We had the rise in racism during Iran Contra because the media kept blasting out images of African American drug dealers - and with this - they've done the same thing EXACTLY right out of the handbook! <br /><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I8Pbkvj7JkM/WUhlOrGHInI/AAAAAAAACnI/8i9vpSo-df0u2sDDxuLeV1qglG7ueuXZgCLcBGAs/s1600/NOSUCHTHING.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="179" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I8Pbkvj7JkM/WUhlOrGHInI/AAAAAAAACnI/8i9vpSo-df0u2sDDxuLeV1qglG7ueuXZgCLcBGAs/s320/NOSUCHTHING.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Of course plugged also by an African American to make sure to drive the racism home! <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1a7GdKBc0vM/WUhngUzFb9I/AAAAAAAACng/k_msXKWVpnIaLCVbOSSO89Z7ioFz4M8aQCLcBGAs/s1600/malikasaar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="160" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1a7GdKBc0vM/WUhngUzFb9I/AAAAAAAACng/k_msXKWVpnIaLCVbOSSO89Z7ioFz4M8aQCLcBGAs/s1600/malikasaar.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , serif; font-size: 14.732px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , serif; font-size: 14.732px;">Withelma “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew (another minority by the way - one who isn't Asian or Russian - notice a trend here?). &nbsp;</span>&nbsp;Even right down to their fake "catfish" so called "survivor" (another version of a Samoly Mam). &nbsp;Always a minority with the minority trafficker if you haven't noticed these people use. &nbsp;(Except when they were pulling their fake scam in Ireland and England with their fake "Catalina Lopez" - oh but that story is in the memoir.)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3SMhVUS1hNQ/WUhoOb26s8I/AAAAAAAACns/hsgWD7ihY94vYhVy5ldqGm7uYOesCsXMQCLcBGAs/s1600/wilma.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3SMhVUS1hNQ/WUhoOb26s8I/AAAAAAAACns/hsgWD7ihY94vYhVy5ldqGm7uYOesCsXMQCLcBGAs/s1600/wilma.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , serif; font-size: 14.732px; line-height: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , &quot;times&quot; , serif; font-size: 14.732px; line-height: inherit;">Who when we checked her out was another fabricated person! &nbsp;These people are hysterically funny! &nbsp;I complain about the "woman in corn rows" plugging this fabricated story so they go out and get Jenna Elfman? &nbsp;Jeez about as "white" as you can get. &nbsp;Too bad the story of her daughter isn't reflective of the general sex trafficking victim. &nbsp;Some would say it isn't even close. &nbsp;Then again she is an actress. &nbsp;I mean if Ricky Martinez would take a check for $500,000 to vouch for Wilthema to get an award . . . ? &nbsp;Well I'd be curious about her tax return is all. &nbsp;I know when her daughter was out there I know our hotline didn't get a call about it is all. &nbsp;</span><br /><br /></div><div>Here's one case in point among many where the truth is coming out about fraudulent programs -<a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05/25/behind-closed-doors-texas-lawmakers-strip-funding-trafficking-victims/" target="_blank">&nbsp;https://www.texastribune.org/2017/05/25/behind-closed-doors-texas-lawmakers-strip-funding-trafficking-victims/</a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The problem with that is that to create the phony buzz for their fake groups - they're shutting down REAL trafficking programs which is probably the point</b>. &nbsp;I started a movement back in the 1980's to have domestic sex trafficking recognized as real in this country. &nbsp;I wanted our government to set up systems to help these victims, and recognize them as victims and not "criminals" as they were doing back then. &nbsp;All that work went into the Trafficking Act of 2000 being passed. &nbsp;I have some clips up showing this work at<a href="http://www.hightechmadam.com/" target="_blank"> www.hightechmadam.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Then these same people I was fighting during Iran Contra came in and "hijacked" the movement not only again with the new way they found to raise millions of dollars without anyone asking questions - but also used it to shut down the service structure we'd built to help victims over all those years. &nbsp;I have kept a diary during the whole thing to document the "anatomy of a movement" which is what my personal story shows - the evolution of Iran Contra into the modern version of Iran Contra 2.0. &nbsp;I have a website I started constructing for the book up at <a href="http://www.memoirsofamadam.com/">www.memoirsofamadam.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div>If you'd like to talk to me personally about it - I can be reached at (702) 488-1127.</div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-43159902991752735872017-06-13T06:29:00.000-07:002017-06-13T06:29:05.476-07:00LEGAL BROTHELS OF NEVADAI've been the shoulder many women have cried on about the working conditions up at the legal brothels. &nbsp;I've also seen how things have taken a very dark turn since about 2007 with the industry itself. &nbsp;Including how many of you have been actively "persuaded" not to go to the press, if they'd listen to you, about your experiences. <br /><br />It seems the union is trying to expand into the industry in Nevada according to Jennifer O'Hare who opened up a brothel herself supposedly to be in "competition" with the male run brothels up in the region. &nbsp;She's also had some very serious accusations she's made against other brothel owners. <br /><br />I told her I'd put it out there to you as our members if you want to come forward and talk about your experiences up there with the idea of changing working conditions. &nbsp;I know some of you have been seriously threatened and I myself have had to relocate many of you outside of Nevada entirely. &nbsp;But nothing changes until it's had a light shined upon it. &nbsp;Sometimes yes at great cost to those of us turning on that flashlight. &nbsp;So I don't blame any of you for not wanting to talk about these issues. &nbsp;I'm not even convinced myself this whole thing isn't just some way to flush you out of the bushes before Dennis Hof runs for the Senate. <br /><br />If you want to talk about this, then I'm going to advise you to come to me first and let me have you consult with one of our trusted attorney's who can advise you of any legal repercussions you have to be aware of or careful about first, and ways to protect yourself from retaliation. &nbsp;Today's gangsters use lawyers as we well know!<br /><br />You know how to reach me if you want to talk about this more.<br /><br /><br /><br />LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-89450595751165849532017-06-13T05:54:00.001-07:002017-06-13T05:54:52.969-07:00AND THERE IT IS - THE MOTIVATION BEHIND THE PLUGGING<a href="https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/testimonial/#respond">https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/testimonial/#respond</a><br /><br />And the marketing begins. LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-33655861072357221462017-06-11T17:51:00.002-07:002017-06-11T17:52:43.101-07:00BUYER BEWAREI've been warning people in the sex industry for some time now that the police, FBI, CIA, etc., have gotten very clever about finding ways to get information from people without warrants for a few years now. &nbsp;Including setting up "faux" sex trafficking groups such as Abeni in Orange County. &nbsp;That's a group set up by a woman who claims to have been a sex worker who set up a group to "support" sex workers AND trafficking victims in connection with the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force. &nbsp;She did this while at the same time contributing to articles on the "Tits &amp; Sass" blog AND heading up the Orange County SWOP chapter (Sex Workers Outreach Project).<br /><br />I got acquainted with Meg Munoz of Abeni in a very strange way. &nbsp;I had a woman call our hotline to ask for help. &nbsp; She had been forced into prostitution when she was only 8 years old when she was back in China about 50 years ago. &nbsp;After reaching 42 years of age, and her son getting ready to enter UCLA, she wanted to stop hooking and doing porn so her "son could be proud of his mother". <br /><br />She also did it for sound legal reasons. &nbsp;It's one thing to support your son as a juvenile when a prostitute. &nbsp;But if the boy turns 18 years of age and you're writing him large checks, under the law that's a felony. &nbsp;It's called "pimping" and it's defined as "taking money from the earnings of a prostitute". &nbsp;All the cops have to do is pull her bank account, show she's given him money, and BAM - he's being charged with felony pimping and possibly his life and career ruined. &nbsp;So she had good reasons why she wanted to stop her prostitution. <br /><br />The people back in China were connected to Liang Yaohui who owned a five star Hotel back in China while also being a part of the Chinese government. &nbsp;That and he ran over 3,000 prostitutes according to the news when he was arrested in 2013. &nbsp;They had sold her over here to the states on a marriage contract. &nbsp;That alone cost her $10,000 to get out from under she told me. &nbsp;So now she was "free and clear" she told these people she was "retiring" and not to give her any more appointments.<br /><br />They weren't too happy with that. &nbsp;The next thing she says happens is two Pasadena police officers showed up at her home, and drug her out of it in front of her mother and son. &nbsp;They then arrested her for "prostitution" and then popped on her it wasn't her first arrest - but her SECOND. &nbsp;They then told her if they busted her a third time, she'd be deported back to China where she'd then be charged for the felony of having porn done with a sibling which is incest in China and they give the death penalty back there for that. &nbsp;Considering who Liang Yaohui was before the government arrested him - it was a viable, believable threat. <br /><br />Well I didn't know whether to even believe this story when I first heard it, so I went to an attorney I trusted and asked him to see if in fact she had a phony charge on her record. &nbsp;He advised me that when someone is arrested, there's a "booking videotape" made. &nbsp;That if the police couldn't produce this tape - then she was probably telling the truth about the fake record being created. &nbsp; If they couldn't produce the booking tape, she'd be able to get this phony charge dismissed also. &nbsp;So he went and ordered the booking tape from the Pasadena police department. <br /><br />Now if anyone is following the Celeste Guap case then you know what's going on with the police in southern California and the cops. &nbsp;Even the Chief of Police. &nbsp;After this attorney ordered the tape, he was threatened by another attorney who called him up. &nbsp;He called me up and bailed. &nbsp;He said he wasn't going to risk his license "over some hooker" which I can't say as I blame him. &nbsp;We were asking him to do this "pro bono" so why stick his neck out that bar? &nbsp;I then went to follow up on it and send over a request to speak to the Pasadena Chief of Police.<br /><br />Who I then didn't hear from, but I did hear from another man identifying as a Pasadena Police Officer who then threatened me to "back off" helping this woman. &nbsp;I refused and then I got a call from a Pasadena Attorney threatening me with a restraining order if I took this woman's calls again. &nbsp;Seems he had a signed power of attorney the woman signed allowing him to threaten me with that. &nbsp;So I contacted the Pasadena Chief of Police about it who then ignored me for a few months. &nbsp;I then went to the City Manager about this. <br /><br />The next thing I know out of a clear blue sky this Meg Munoz calls me up and says that "I heard you have violated a survivor's anonymity". &nbsp;I was like "what are you talking about?" of course because I'd never spoken to this woman nor had any idea what she was talking about. &nbsp;So I asked her "who said this?" and also "show me some proof" because I don't violate anonymity ever. &nbsp;Next thing I know she's online telling people that I'm "stalking her" and she's "afraid for her life" and asking people if they know where I live so she can order a 5150 charge against me. &nbsp;Of course on the SAME DAY as I'm being invited to come into the Pasadena station to talk to the Chief at the City Manager's urging<br /><br />I could see the handwriting on the wall. &nbsp;I go into Pasadena's police station, she then takes out a warrant against me for "stalking her" and I get slapped in handcuffs the minute I walk into the station. &nbsp;Thankfully no one told her where I lived but she tried for a few days by saying all kinds of lies about I supposedly "threatened her" and "stalked her", etc. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;I have no idea. &nbsp;But she then started telling me that I would be arrested and she'd take out the TRO to block me from coming to her Abeni meetings - so whatever it was she sure didn't want me coming to the Abeni meetings even though I've been running groups for sex workers, trafficking victims, and men, women and transgenders who have exited the biz for over 30 years now. &nbsp;Kind of like saying you're running a sober living house but then telling Bill Wilson to sit and spin. &nbsp;Clearly something was wrong with this picture here.<br /><br />Sure enough I started hearing reports that people were "being pumped for information" at these meetings. &nbsp;I then witnessed every single comment, word, line, etc., I'd ever said, or was said about Sex Workers Anonymous wiped right off the "Tits &amp; Sass" blog, replaced by featuring Meg Munoz as some kind of advocate although I've never heard a word out of her about anything she was doing to help our community other than threatening me and trying to get me arrested - but why? <br /><br />People started telling me how they knew Meg, but this woman showing up at SWOP meetings claiming to be her wasn't her. &nbsp;How information they told her was getting back to law enforcement. &nbsp;When I pointed out that Abeni had received a $30,000 grant from the Human Trafficking Task Force HEADED by the Orange County Police, and how the Pasadena Chief of Police resided in Orange County at the time he was Pasadena Chief - the picture started becoming real clear. &nbsp;Especially when I uncovered that "8 Minutes" headed up supposedly by ex-cop Kevin Brown was a complete fraud. &nbsp;There was no "safe house" and there was no "program" and Kevin hasn't ever helped a fly get out of something - let alone a sex worker escape a pimp and/or trafficker. &nbsp; That series just so "happened" to get the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force over 1.2 million dollars - of which Abeni, and Meg, got $30,000. &nbsp;When I pointed out that nugget of info online, suddenly Abeni's name disappears off the OC Human Trafficking website like they didn't want people to know she was connected to them, and thus law enforcement. <br /><br />I've also noticed how there's these SWOP groups that keep inviting sex workers to come out to public events held outdoors where people can be videotaped without a warrant. &nbsp;Where the parking lot is set up so it's clearly that meeting you're going to if you use that parking lot to where anyone can take a picture of your car's license plate, and then know who the owner is of the car. &nbsp;If you're at a public event outside in "public" - you can be videotaped without a warrant. &nbsp;So why not a private banquet room? &nbsp;A place with a lot of parking so no one knows what car? <b>&nbsp;I mean what sex worker does this to expose other sex workers like that? &nbsp;</b><br /><b><br /></b>I'm a paralegal by trade and I started finding case after case where it was talking about how an informant was obtaining information through listening to what people shared in AA and NA meetings. &nbsp;I was appalled! <b>&nbsp; &nbsp;These meetings are supposed to be "confidential". &nbsp;</b>However, these people were going to "open meetings" and then saying it was "legal" to be testifying at a grand jury about what they had heard at these meetings. &nbsp;Even more disgusting, they were putting personal information on people into a computer database which law enforcement rents for about $800 a month. &nbsp;Think it doesn't exist? &nbsp;Think again -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/constable-shred-investigation-of-porn-star-searches/">https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/constable-shred-investigation-of-porn-star-searches/</a>&nbsp; If you've seen the film "Snowden" you'd have an idea what kind of information is on there.<br /><br />Let me show you more proof of what I'm talking about because I've been saying for sometime that they've been pushing sex workers to go into "counseling" with workers who are not covered by the confidentiality laws and then pumping them for incriminating information without a warrant. &nbsp;Check out this website for "Angels of Nevada". &nbsp;Looks good right? &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://www.angelsofnevada.com/">http://www.angelsofnevada.com/</a><br /><br />Only do you see a NAME of anyone on this site? &nbsp;A psychiatrist? &nbsp;A therapist? &nbsp;Something? &nbsp;Go over to Whois who has information on who owns the domain there and guess &nbsp;who owns the domain? <a href="https://whois.net/" target="_blank">&nbsp;https://whois.net/</a><br /><br />When you look it up - John Kenda is the person the domain belongs to who is&nbsp;<a href="https://display.engagesciences.com/display/container/dc/ecff4f16-7a2d-4fd9-bfeb-691e92b74f11/entry" target="_blank">https://display.engagesciences.com/display/container/dc/ecff4f16-7a2d-4fd9-bfeb-691e92b74f11/entry</a><br /><a href="https://display.engagesciences.com/display/container/dc/ecff4f16-7a2d-4fd9-bfeb-691e92b74f11/entry" target="_blank"><br /></a>Any relation to Joe Kenda? &nbsp;Interesting question. &nbsp;Why are there no names on this site of who is connected to them?<br /><br />One can't help but wonder if John is related to John Kenda. You know the Homicide Detective making shows on Discovery Network? &nbsp; <br /><a href="https://display.engagesciences.com/display/container/dc/ecff4f16-7a2d-4fd9-bfeb-691e92b74f11/entry" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="https://display.engagesciences.com/display/container/dc/ecff4f16-7a2d-4fd9-bfeb-691e92b74f11/entry" target="_blank"><br /></a>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-42021316314205559442017-06-10T01:34:00.002-07:002017-06-10T01:34:15.976-07:00HOW MANY MORE HOAXES AND FRAUDS ARE GOING TO COME TO LIGHT?<br /><div class="_3x-2" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="mtm" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="_6m2 _1zpr clearfix _dcs _4_w4 _59ap" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;H&quot;}" id="u_jsonp_3_8" style="background-color: white; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 0px 0px 1px inset, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 1px 4px; font-family: inherit; max-width: max-content; overflow: hidden; position: relative; z-index: 0; zoom: 1;"><div class="clearfix _2r3x" style="font-family: inherit; zoom: 1;"><div class="lfloat _ohe" style="float: left; font-family: inherit; width: 488px;"><span class="_3m6-" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="_6ks" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 0; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lasvegasnow.com%2F%E2%80%A6%2Fi-team-former-cop-su%E2%80%A6%2F607916728&amp;h=ATP0atiANGsgr2xtPeebGAIS72zGlJaYdbmhlnFh-emX1dxiAgyYlklsWEjzwIdyQmc3ZNXojhOks8zPBpOcOi4HoqdG62RnaJIlMFYhfRRDP6wIxyz-5B9G6XdUdTwFyroUwJz66nciBhUJ6c0FQUHCKz8&amp;enc=AZNmFe6q03qAbPgvdkmEx37N5UUc8mmQebPdTC9NxYShjatY4LmnxUmf9bgE8PQFHR0Q_gg_8Jxwac3ibmFVdeGa1cBnKd-wQ60hQpgtyG8bOqDEpMIYxJawA3nVHvQArN8lPIvgNhfZuG-psT0Kb5jSM63t7J3GqzMs-ABe6oxnmk7fwIEqH0nAxV6aK3DEohsrNLbgHlObrR8DMTIEFZaM&amp;s=1" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" tabindex="-1" target="_blank"><div class="_6l- __c_" style="font-family: inherit; position: relative;"></div></a></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}" id="js_151" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.38; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="display: inline; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px;">Another one bites the dust&nbsp;<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lasvegasnow.com%2F&amp;h=ATPWdA_va0Uc9U2EeOJrw0OKaLtvITzEZXj5-7DYvER_88HsUalKEEbyZB5y2WuDNC6LXBHPY_iJqKICu8JtyJuZS7rIaChdy1V8XEMpi93C1k27dQzcEaTWqHrpSQ9I_IZjEuTm9Al6bW7yx26VZr1bgsSX8a62Ku-UvT4&amp;enc=AZPV-3S7KNyTOE4TF4ZIQBk0JWcyoWyQ8tP-2GZtLG1iTboEEQ97_fWOan9OixkMmpA5rGfZuKiwYJd5ze_-fLjmThcCi09zd85TLnB7UUhvzWq9Juzgx6EzBpd0pm6DcNqbehI5QEmXS_lGQzJuPYiLwCZcSNBj1d_d95hP4NsyleloKnJ1VXsPI5cpz_9QtVIdQ78_0KlbIsEShSbTG5RT&amp;s=1" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.lasvegasnow.com/</a>…/i-team-former-cop-su…/607916728 Notice the pattern yet guys? Yet another "crusader" who had NOTHING to do with&nbsp;<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sexworkersanonymous.com%2F&amp;h=ATNHyLj8_k0X5I1HEcWoKiqxstXa9h1Vs8XygFv079o9eTeQpzfe1u-gMmFRPZka5ywW2teXG3BWkycB2Pi7Mmmsp_KQs-kSqplnB87DJA7ZuAdPZHhkxWftILCEkKezi2MMfNdB3Cs9k24d1XwB14JfxeD5ZBuTdwaeBhk&amp;enc=AZN5hVvdAIL6xM-zZzdGD-yeo4BSAnNhyoh-NwtH31Vy8QGJ2BjWsL5IPHAIGPH6FAfgEPQ6u90G4JgttKs3c_-kIx1epduR9AGzRITe5lM4pllgypMRDabROQsQMOT8v8BZBkYU7IuLFiIV_f1dd51rFNqYV5s-ejoP6vvnmC-fZiHCqWqTqxlfQXr5yqLQJfj0flsALm9gSMPRtIC4Qu40&amp;s=1" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.sexworkersanonymous.com</a>&nbsp;while claiming to be on the same side of the war as us. We established our headquarters in Nevada in 1996 and have been working with REAL victims against REAL traffickers ever since. Has anyone figured out yet the ones who are all being exposed as fakes were the same ones who were refusing to even talk to us about the victims we were working with? Again, if someone is telling you they're wanting to help an alcoholic while refusing to even acknowledge Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous - then figure out something is WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!</div></div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-74217844482085127382017-05-22T01:11:00.002-07:002017-05-22T01:11:39.467-07:00TOLD YOU SO . . .CHINESE WERE KILLING CIA AGENTS IN RESTAURANTS. WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY DID TO THOSE IN MASSAGE PARLORS?<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&amp;src=trending&amp;module=Ribbon&amp;version=context&amp;region=Header&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=Trending&amp;pgtype=article&amp;_r=1">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spies-espionage.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&amp;src=trending&amp;module=Ribbon&amp;version=context&amp;region=Header&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=Trending&amp;pgtype=article&amp;_r=1</a><br /><br />Note - for those who said we were being "paranoid" these people were threatening our lives for helping trafficking victims to escape them - think again. &nbsp;This shows they were kllling CIA agents - so they wouldn't think twice about lkilingLEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-34745653451212605122017-05-14T18:23:00.000-07:002017-05-14T19:51:02.145-07:00LETTER TO JANET MOCK AND MELISSA MIRA GRANT SENT AFTER READING ABOUT JANET'S "WORDS BEING ERASED" IN AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT ABOUT WOMENS' RIGHTS<span style="color: #222222; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;">Dear Melissa:</span><br /><div class="gmail_quote" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In reading about what happened with Janet - I thought you might like a copy of the email I just sent her inviting her to open up a dialogue with us over here at Sex Workers Anonymous. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now before you go jumping to any conclusions about who or what you "think" we are - I invite you to read the email herein.&nbsp; I also want to ask you to look at the kinds of "counter" campaigns that have been launched by corporations such as Monsanto into attacking their protesters for a moment also. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">After reading about what they do to protect their interests -&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.naturalnews.com/040492_GMO_activists_Monsanto_blackwater.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494897545013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4WjMczqo5A2CDpyimA7v1ABVclg" href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040492_GMO_activists_Monsanto_blackwater.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.naturalnews.com/<wbr></wbr>040492_GMO_activists_Monsanto_<wbr></wbr>blackwater.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;I want to ask you if you think after all of the successful ground we were making over a 30 year span of time if you can consider that maybe, just maybe, everything you've been "told" to you about us just isn't true?</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">IF these groups put so much money into the concept of "saving" us and that we need "rescue" to the tune of even creating a whole fake person with "Samoly Mam" just to get someone to run around mouthing their views while pretending to be someone she wasn't, even coaching little children to lie about who they were - do you not think it's just as real that they might also be engaging in a "counter" campaign to try and smear us to "divide and conquer"? &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">It's quite common you know to stir up fake social media against one's enemies these days as evidenced by what happened to KFC when attacked by a Chinese marketing company - &nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/kfc-sues-chinese-companies-over-alleged-eight-legged-chicken-rumors-1433166317&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494897545013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGsrNNwuhx0zzuOQNb9VwHsgdsGrQ" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/kfc-sues-chinese-companies-over-alleged-eight-legged-chicken-rumors-1433166317" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/articles/<wbr></wbr>kfc-sues-chinese-companies-<wbr></wbr>over-alleged-eight-legged-<wbr></wbr>chicken-rumors-1433166317</a></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Now I ask you to consider for a moment - what if - just what if - that statement had been released with words printed as Janet's words which were not her actual words what the reaction might be if somehow during this event you witnessed with your own eyes - what if someone had planted the words saying that Janet had "called to outlaw the sex industry" as was done to me in 2007 at a press conference I was invited to participate in under deceptive pretenses I learned too late in fact about.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">What do you think the phones would be like the next day had those words gone out attributed falsely to Janet?&nbsp; Now a lot of years has passed in 2007 to 2017 - ten years.&nbsp; Imagine if this kind of war in the media to try and maintain what her real views are has been a war waging for 10 years?&nbsp; Now I've managed to get about 99 % of the false statements, even the "fake documentaries" taken off social media - but I also can't calm down and explain myself to some people who are so upset they won't listen to my explanations "those aren't my words" either. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Meaning before you jump to any conclusion about what or who you think I or the hotline/program I run stands for in reality - I ask you to please consider that before forming that opinion you and I might personally speak to each other even first for two minutes?&nbsp; Something neither you nor Janet and I have done yet to date have we? &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I have to say I admire REPUTABLE investigative reporters such as John Quinones to name just one from ABC's "What Would You Do?", or even Bob Herbert who used to have an opt-ed column with the Ny Times. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;Because in 2007 with Bob and 2009 with John - these men didn't listen to what ANYONE said about us, not even me. &nbsp;They each got into a plane and then a car to personally come out to Las Vegas. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">After coming to where I lived at that time, they then spent time meeting with me, coming to my home, meeting with SWA members, watching how we operated over time, and John even spent time meeting with my daughter, talking to my landlord - I mean doing a very THOROUGH investigation into me and SWA's operations. &nbsp;The results of their work was shown in the positive articles/chapters they then published about SWA and myself which I also have up on www.hightechmadam.com</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Which even that nickname "high tech madam" is misleading by the way. &nbsp;Yes I was arrested for supposedly "running a brothel" with my mother in 1984 but the truth is that wasn't what that warehouse was at all. &nbsp;Yes it had been the site of an illegal brothel at one time. &nbsp;Yes I had been working as an escort and madam during 1984. &nbsp;However, that warehouse had been converted into the first "safe house" in the USA for adult victims needing a place to escape sex trafficking. &nbsp;Now hold on a minute because I'm NOT saying "pimps". &nbsp;If one needed to stop a pimp in 1987 all one had to do was pick up the phone and call 911. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I didn't need a warehouse in an industrial section of town equipped with expensive sophisticated surveillance equipment nor high tech security equipment either next to the police station to operate a "brothel". &nbsp;That was an excuse to get into the place where the LAPD then tore up my video cameras, destroying some evidence I had against them and other people such as Chuck Barris and our own CIA. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">To understand who and what I was trying to keep safe and hide there - you need to read up on Iran Contra, the Hillside Strangler case which was actually two pimps targeting "square" girls for abuse and then transforming them into prostitutes in order to invalidate their testimony against them before they evolved into murder, and also more about Chuck Barris and his ties to the CIA you can read about in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I was also arrested so that the LAPD could spread the rumor I was "going to turn on people" to try and make my friends and supporters "run" to the hills to protect themselves from incrimination and/or prosecution. &nbsp;At the time, the news hadn't broke yet that I was helping to launder money for prostitutes on movie sets through their budgets we were helping to draw up at Paramount Studios for example. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">See even then the authorities were trying to "divide and conquer" in order to get control over people and what they wanted to have happen - happen using fear, rumors, smear campaigns, etc. &nbsp;Because that's how the other side works - to "divide and conquer" us from moving this movement forward. &nbsp;They did it to get my "safe house" shut down and wipe out my evidence against them then, also chasing off any supporters I might have at that time. &nbsp;They also arrested all the other madams at our level in 1984 - go on and check it out on Google and you'll find ALL of us from the east coast to the west coast were arrested in 1984. &nbsp;<b>Partly to again "divide and conquer" the alliances we had built up talking to each other about what we were going to do about what the police were doing to us back then.</b></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></b></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/12/heidi-fleiss.html">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/12/heidi-fleiss.html</a>&nbsp; Elizabeth Adams was arrested in 1984 with me, and then promptly got herself introduced to Heidi Fleiss that same year. <b>&nbsp;</b></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Norma Jean arrested <a href="http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitics.com/pdfs_all/Academics%20Research%20Articles%20Support%20Prostitution%20%20Decriminalization/2011%20How%20the%20laws%20allow%20for%20abuse%20NJA5.pdf" target="_blank">1984&nbsp;http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitics.com/pdfs_all/Academics%20Research%20Articles%20Support%20Prostitution%20%20Decriminalization/2011%20How%20the%20laws%20allow%20for%20abuse%20NJA5.pd</a>f</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Biddle_Barrows">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Biddle_Barrows</a>&nbsp; Mayflower Madam arrested 1984.</span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: medium;">Cheri Woods was arrested in 1985 in this article - but I also know she was arrested in 1984 when she was six months pregnant at the time. <a href="http://www.canyon-news.com/west-hollywood-landlord-pleads/61688" target="_blank">&nbsp;http://www.canyon-news.com/west-hollywood-landlord-pleads/61688</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">This article talks about how in 1984 100's of prostitutes were targeted for arrest&nbsp;"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">In the first two months of 1984, police arrested 443 men and women for prostitution related charges, but with no apparent change."&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/1989/january/prostitutes/" target="_blank">http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/1989/january/prostitutes/&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">&nbsp; '</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I think you see see by just these links there was an organized effort going on in the USA in 1984 to "divide and conquer" the alliance we had built up amongst the madams to try and "network" a communication line between all of us during a time when we had no internet nor cell phones. &nbsp;Lines which were broken up during 1984 deliberately by these arrests. &nbsp;Something again which has been targeted to this community starting back in 2007 when I refused to mouth certain "untruths" during an international press conference I had agreed to appear at and involve SWA with. &nbsp;Had not my mother just died back then, I doubt I wouldn't have so "off" my normal intuition and wouldn't have done the whole thing in the first place - but it's done. &nbsp;I was asked to do this because of the progress and headway our program had been creating,</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; letter-spacing: 0.8px;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Especially with the headway we were making up to 2007 that started the whole riff I'm talking about here.&nbsp; So I'll also invite you to please check this out and call me sometime at&nbsp;<a href="tel:(702)%20488-1127" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+17024881127">(702) 488-1127</a>.&nbsp; Like most people who are in the media eye a lot - I'm not quite what I'm painted out to be anymore than Planned Parenthood was accurately portrayed in those hidden videos fabricated against them either by the same EXACT people we're fighting right now in this movement here. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">These people came after us when after offering me a substantial amount of money as a salary in a job doing "direct services" to sex workers I was offered back in 2007 - &nbsp; they then asked me to make that statement about "outlawing sex work" as well as calling out all sex work as "rape" we needed to "all be rescued from". &nbsp;I refused to make these statements and the backlash ensued. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">One that included us in their attacks Melissa because our group has never ever turned their back onto men, minorities, the LGBT communities, nor the transgenders despite their best efforts to try and stamp out any group who did with the TVRA revisions of 2002 by cutting off funding to any group who wouldn't sign that "prostitution clause". &nbsp;Which is another reason why we stuck to referring to this community as a "sex industry" rather than just that of "prostitutes" because as you know many can be employed in this industry who are not offering intercourse for money such as web cam performers to name just one. &nbsp;As you know, web cam performers can be just as targeted for abuse and exploitation as "prostitutes". &nbsp;That's why we wouldn't limit the discussion to just "prostitutes". &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">The "prostitution clause"&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">mind you written by Randall Tobias.&nbsp; A man whose name Jeane Palfrey, the D.C. Madam, died trying to break to the public not because he was a "john" but for what he was doing with the prostitution clause AND in light of information she had planned on giving to the ethics commission had she lived to testify there.&nbsp; Jeanne was not only a member of SWA, but her and I spoke daily for years before her murder. &nbsp;</span></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I also had evidence it was a murder and why it was a murder which had to be blocked from appearing in the press when she was murdered in 2009 just as the media had tried at first to suppress even Randall's name from being validated as even being in her phone logs. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">All the more reason why certain people wanted me shut up Melissa.&nbsp; We were achieving a lot of ground in the sex worker movement until her murder in 2009 proving there was a conspiracy afoot to try and cut off services to the LGBT and transgender communities using this revision as one means to accomplish this, as well as why "johns" were being so heavily "criminalized" as they are now to also silence them in the media.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Pretty serious campaigns if you've seen this Sean Saxon case out of Denver I should add where he got socked with a two million dollar judgment against him as a "john" charging him with a crime for even talking about going to the police with information he had.&nbsp; Again, don't just so quickly to react to what stories "appear" to be.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">I say that because I've been documenting now YEARS of FAKE articles, interviews, documentaries, films, websites, TV shows, even so called "reality series" all demonizing Craigslist or Backpage as the "cause" of sex trafficking falsely that reached such a critical point in my opinion with the series "8 Minutes" i served them with a legal notice of my intent to sue them over that show.&nbsp; Within 4 hours LITERALLY - the website for the show, and all shows, were taken off the internet. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A fact recorded by Buzzfeed at first who noticed this.&nbsp; Then 8 hours after getting my legal notice they had released a press statement the show had been "canceled".&nbsp; Within 12 hours a completely fabricated story was being put together on to CNN where some of the actors were so badly prepared they kept forgetting their own stories - you'll see what I mean if you get a chance to catch the "Truth about 8 Minutes" show sometime how "Dlita Miller" kept forgetting her own story on the show she was such a bad actress.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Why all that to cover up the real reason the show as being canceled as being in response to my legal notice? &nbsp; I'll show you why - to try and avoid this from happening -&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://variety.com/2015/film/news/ryan-kavanaugh-lawsuit-relativity-fraud-1201548076/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494897545013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGOKBD9Ia1xaZ5v_zz9FDhGP5YBHg" href="http://variety.com/2015/film/news/ryan-kavanaugh-lawsuit-relativity-fraud-1201548076/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://variety.com/2015/<wbr></wbr>film/news/ryan-kavanaugh-<wbr></wbr>lawsuit-relativity-fraud-<wbr></wbr>1201548076/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;A lot of money, including lawsuits and even federal legislation were riding on the negative portrayals of Backpage as being "real" was involved with that show.&nbsp; The last thing Relativity Media wanted as me filing an action proving the show was in fact "faked" nor why. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">A show that totally promoted the idea we as sex workers across the board as an industry needed "saving" by the way.&nbsp; A show where the legal notice I served upon Relativity Media that I believe is why they yanked it off the air in response to this notice was because i had threatened to file what's called a "defamacast" class action against them on behalf of not only sex workers but also sex trafficking victims as well being as I'm both myself personally. &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Also as an "expert" who has spoken to more of each than anyone else in this dog fight being as I've now personally answered over 500,000 phone calls over 30 years on our hotline - something not you, Janet, nor even Bradley Myles can boast that experience first hand with others who are true life real sex workers and sex trafficking victims domestically.&nbsp; I said in my notice that the show was "improperly portraying sex workers as being all victims" while on the other hand also "falsely portraying sex trafficking victims as operating out of Backpage which was not true either". &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">As well as stating that "true life real sex trafficking victim rescue operations are not done by "sting" operations set up off Backpage either as no sex trafficking operation I've ever dealt with or even heard operates &nbsp;in the manner being portrayed on their scripted staged show falsely representing itself to be a "reality" show designed to mislead the public and con people out of money". &nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">So Melissa - I also invite you to please consider checking this information out, and also calling me sometime personally.&nbsp; Love to talk to you.&nbsp; Now you've seen how these people try to alter one's words - maybe you'll understand better where I'm coming from and what these same people did to my voice, and that of the many SWA members our group represents across this country, into Canada, and also in other countries where sex work is legal. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: times, &quot;times new roman&quot;, serif;">Thanks again for considering this - Jody&nbsp;</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"><div class="h5" style="color: #500050;"><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Dear Janet - just found your email and decided to write after I heard about how your words were altered, even erased, without your consent on social media today. &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>That's why I thought I'd reach out - because now you have witnessed and experienced for yourself on a different scale how these people "operate".&nbsp; Only with our work they've gone to way greater lengths than to simply alter our statements connected to the March.</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>In fact, when these same powers that be realized back in 2007 that we weren't going to shut up about our true feelings our members of&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.sexworkersanonymous.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494897545013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG5DQ4RAbxojUuq57tRO-I7PPcAoA" href="http://www.sexworkersanonymous.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.sexworkersanonymous.com</a>&nbsp;were expressing which contradicted what "they" wanted us to say to support their agenda - they started doing everything in their power to wipe us out completely from even the very involvement in a sex worker movement we had a HUGE part of dating back to the 1980's when it was REALLY tough then to not only have female sex workers' voices heard - but entirely IMPOSSIBLE for that of transgender voices to be heard. &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>I say that because in 1987 the hotline and program we created was one that not only was for females, for sex workers, but also for those of male, transgender and the LGBT people who comprise all parts of the sex industry.&nbsp; To show you how revolutionary we were - we created the program originally as "Prostitutes Anonymous". &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Why?&nbsp; To go in the gate grabbing those who had been convicted of prostitution charges by LAPD and to get them released from jail into our custody through the first diversion and alternative sentencing program we had put together which within our first 30 days we had over 400 transgenders, 100 male pimps and 1800 female prostitutes released from the LA jails in 1987.&nbsp; Because no shelters would provide services to the transgender males, through then mayor Tom Bradley, he found them a house which was turned into the first program for transgender male sex workers.&nbsp; Only we couldn't call it that directly back then or it would have been fire bombed - but in reality that's what the house was. &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Our program also created the first programs for transgender sex workers WITHIN the jails and prisons.&nbsp; We did this for a few reasons not so obvious at first.&nbsp; First, as you can imagine male transgender sex workers on hormones were being denied their hormones by the jails/prisons.&nbsp; They were also considered "discretionary" by the insurance companies and within the jails, prisons, and halfway houses transgender prostitutes were having to be a part of. &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Access to getting them proper health care and medications were being denied to them.&nbsp; We found we couldn't even get visitors in to check on them to make sure they were even okay once on the "inside" of these jails, sober living homes, halfway houses, etc. &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>We found there were some "loopholes" which allowed that incarcerated inmates could not be denied visits from people such as their (1) attorney, their (2) priest or minister, and/or (3) a 12 step program sponsor.&nbsp; In fact, many jails and prisons can't legally operate without proper licensing which requires the presence of at least 1 to 2 forms of 12 step meetings.&nbsp; Inmates are also allowed to keep literature, and/or letters from their attorney, spiritual advisor OR also their "12 step sponsors". &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Now finding these loopholes allowed us to start bringing our 12 step meetings into some of the jails/prisons starting in Los Angeles again in 1987.&nbsp; This allowed us to check in with our males, our transgender, and our LGBT members of the sex industry on the inside of these facilities who were there because of other charges other than prostitution for which we couldn't arrange an early release for them.&nbsp; These weekly "meetings" were mostly to check up on everyone on the inside to make sure they were okay, they were being allowed their phone calls, given their commissary, talked to their attorney's, and other "check in's" we'd do while there. <br /><br />Including demanding to see them physically if we were told they were in "isolation".&nbsp; This allowed us to question their medical care to make sure they were receiving what they needed, give them any mail they might not have received otherwise, deliver communications, and assist them with getting an early release and re-introduction back into the community. <br /><br />You have to realize not every transgender sex worker on the inside of a jail is a 'drug addict" or "alcoholic".&nbsp; So many of the privileges these 12 step programs offer to the addict/alcoholic was not afforded the sex workers who didn't have this disease.&nbsp; Meaning many couldn't have someone check on them, arrange for an early release, help them find housing, work on their visa's, etc.&nbsp; However, by bringing into the jails/prisons our 12 step program we were able to make sure as many of these amenities and resources as we could to the LGBT, male and transgender sex workers in a way not done otherwise back then.&nbsp; In fact, I have an early interview with one of our members, Joy, who is an African American transgender from found our program while in custody -&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stopsextrafficktalk/2013/03/14/transgender-hiv-trafficking-survivor-speaks&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494897545013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFIwLnKu3-tnMhJsNFaylzlePXA1g" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stopsextrafficktalk/2013/03/14/transgender-hiv-trafficking-survivor-speaks" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.blogtalkradio.com<wbr></wbr>/stopsextrafficktalk/2013/03/<wbr></wbr>14/transgender-hiv-trafficking<wbr></wbr>-survivor-speaks</a></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>So you'll notice we got ourselves wiped right on out of the whole event entirely.&nbsp; You at least just found some of your words erased - while we ourselves as a group were erased right out of the entire scene.&nbsp; Trust me - they've been working on shutting us up for some time now.&nbsp; But in trying to explain this and why and how to many who haven't seen it - we just come off sounding "crazy". <br /><br />So when I saw you have now seen this with your own eyes as they did this to you - well that's how they started with us at a press conference we were giving in 2007.&nbsp; When I refused to mouth the words these people wanted me to say to the press who came to hear our words &nbsp;- the woman doing the organizing of this event took individual reporters out into the hallway and said we felt this way against our knowledge and wishes.</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Of course spurring on a huge warfare that ensued from sex workers who felt we had "betrayed" them by the false statement made by Melissa Farley that we "wanted to abolish sex work" which we didn't say, don't believe, nor do we want.&nbsp; When I found out what she'd done, I made an immediate retraction and published a statement we were breaking from this woman, why, and that we were not going to have one other thing to do with her. &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Statements we issued to sex industry blogs standard in the field at that time such as "Tits &amp; Sass" who published the story, about also news of our breaking away from her, and that we were forming our own group who wasn't going to say such things as "rescue" and/or "call to outlaw the sex industry" as she had tried to put those words in our mouths.&nbsp; Well blogs such as "Tits &amp; Sass" did such a great job putting out the "word" on her that no other sex worker would grant her an interview after that news broke. &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>Meaning she had to launch a counter-move.&nbsp; One that involved taking over the Tits &amp; Sass blog seeing as how everyone read it within the sex industry.&nbsp; Once having taken it over - these people have every single word of us scrubbed right out of their blog entirely.&nbsp; Despite having contributed to it since it's launch - overnight all mention of our names even had been scrubbed clean right along with the story about what was done to us during the press conference I'm talking about.</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>So Janet - you see yourself what we've been up against ourselves with some of these people, and also have they have "their" people walking around everywhere because they also have their "influencers" planted around the movement as well pretending to be other than what they are to gain influence, advantage, and control. &nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>All making sure you don't even know we exist - let alone what our "words" are.&nbsp; So I'm hoping to open up a dialogue with you further.&nbsp; Please call me anytime after noon at&nbsp;<a href="tel:(702)%20488-1127" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+17024881127">(702) 488-1127</a>.&nbsp; Thanks Janet - Jody</b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.sexworkersanonymous.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1494897545013000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG5DQ4RAbxojUuq57tRO-I7PPcAoA" href="http://www.sexworkersanonymous.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>www.sexworkersanonymous.com</b></span></a></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b>ps - don't believe everything you read about us online.&nbsp; As you know - not all of what's printed online is true or even what it appears to be on sight.&nbsp; Thanks!</b></span></div><span class="m_-870302352654907724gmail-HOEnZb"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b></b></span></span><br /><div style="font-size: large;"><span class="m_-870302352654907724gmail-HOEnZb"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span class="m_-870302352654907724gmail-HOEnZb"><span style="color: #9900ff; font-family: &quot;times&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><b></b></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br />LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-43140114669758486592017-05-14T13:59:00.000-07:002017-05-14T13:59:09.409-07:00LEE IS NOT JUST "ONE BAD APPLE" - THE BARREL HAS GOT TO BE CHANGED ENTIRELY<div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you for printing something about Joohoon David Lee. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/homeland-security-agents-took-15m-in-bribes-closed-their-eyes/" target="_blank">http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/homeland-security-agents-took-15m-in-bribes-closed-their-eyes/ </a>&nbsp;You have no idea what I went through to get any attention on even getting him INVESTIGATED, let alone prosecuted. &nbsp;Here's a few things still bothering me however about this story the media hasn't picked up on yet though.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />1. &nbsp;He was convicted of taking a bribe - yet to do this means they know who he got the bribe from. &nbsp;Okay so where's the case against the people who bribed him? &nbsp;Why hasn't this person(s) been even charged yet?</span></div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /></span></div><div style="-webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. &nbsp;HIs case illustrates a HUGE problem we have in this country with respect to the type of education we have now out there educating people like airport security on things like how he operated for all that time walking right past everyone and operating in plain sight for years. &nbsp;The reasons were as many people told me that they "had no idea what to do about it". &nbsp;Which I understand. &nbsp;I'll explain why - when I first suspected there was someone involved in the trafficking ring connected to "Operation Dollhouse" in 2007 who was involved with Immigration and/or Homeland Security at that time I had no clue who to report those suspicions to. &nbsp;Internal Affairs? &nbsp;Nope. &nbsp;Okay who? &nbsp;I found myself repeatedly being turned over to the very people I was trying to report with instructions to "file your report there". &nbsp;Well wait a minute - that's who I'm trying to report! &nbsp;Now I'm a pretty persistent person so I continued on looking for "who" to report issues to. &nbsp;However when I would find other sources to go to I'd also find that person there also. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />Here's an example - I was preparing to file a report against Lt. Karen Hughes of Las Vegas Metro. &nbsp;When I went to make a report I was told she was the head of the Vice Dept., and not just an officer on the department. &nbsp;Okay so who do I go to then to make a report? &nbsp;Chief of Police. &nbsp;Okay guess what? &nbsp;Karen Hughes was the CHIEF of N. Las Vegas Police ALSO at the same time she was head of the Vice Dept. &nbsp;Internal Affairs then right? &nbsp;Wrong. &nbsp;She was ALSO head of Internal Affairs for N. Las Vegas. &nbsp;Then when I went to someone in Clark County to complain I was told "oh no you have to go back to talk to so and so" who was where Karen was the head of. &nbsp; So I go to the Clark County Chief - only that was Chief Gillispie who I had filed a complaint about also because of the same case. &nbsp;When I had tried making a report to Chief Gillispie - within 24 hours all evidence had been completely cleaned up, covered up, and cast to the wind not to be found again. &nbsp;So making a report seemed to only serve as notice for the people involved to go clean up their tracks. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />It was only after a A LOT of digging I found there was an Office of Professional Responsibility and THEY were the ones who opened an investigation into Joohoon finally, among others. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />3. &nbsp;Leading to the next problem. &nbsp;They were only able to charge him with "bribery" and not "sex trafficking" because he had immunity because of having used the taxpayers' money to buy the plane tickets for these victims, and company time while "on the job" to also do these things. &nbsp;So let me get this straight - do sex trafficking while also on the Homeland Security team and you're immune? &nbsp;And the taxpayers pay for your overhead? &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />Whoopie - let's just start funneling sex traffickers into the Homeland Security office shall we? &nbsp;Which sadly I have been hearing is exactly the case. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;Not only was he given immunity from prosecution for what he did but all of these officers and agents who get exposed for this type of thing are RETIRING WITH THEIR PERSIONS. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />So get caught - and you don't go to jail and you retire with a pension. &nbsp;Let me ask you something - is that a deterrent or a recruiting poster?<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />I know this, Joohoon was driving up to his sentencing hearing while working as a limo driver for CLS Limo. &nbsp;Who is that? &nbsp; A company owned by Charles Horkey. &nbsp;Who is that? &nbsp;Only a guy who was convicted of drugging his customers and then maxing out their credit cards and sex trafficking women. &nbsp;He further used his company to target men who were frequenting strip clubs, brothels, massage parlors, etc., because once they found out they had been drugged and robbed - he was threatening to get them fired from their jobs and their wives to kick them out of the house by exposing how they came to be in his limo in the first place. &nbsp;In other words, I think everything about his trial was a mockery of our legal system and was only done because I had been hounding the hell out of people for almost 10 years by the time he was finally charged with at least bribery. &nbsp;In other words, they wanted to do something where they could say "we did something" while in reality changing nothing. &nbsp;It was a "show" not unlike when Pablo Escobar was pretending to a "businessman" while in reality getting extradition laws passed to save his own ass and allow him to walk into a jail he built with a back door. &nbsp;What a mockery! &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />A guy who made a complete mockery by the way of the Nevada legislature. &nbsp;How? &nbsp;Charles Horkey of CLS Limo had got a lobbyist. &nbsp;A lobbyist who was shared with Live Nation, who managed Charlie Sheen and Snoop Dogg to name just two interesting clients, with the Cupcake Girls. &nbsp;The Cupcake Girls then flew into Nevada in 2011 - the same year that Snoop Dogg and Charlie Sheen retained Live Nation to manage them by the way, and who had secrets in Nevada to cover up. &nbsp;So the Cupcake Girls flies into town offering free money for this and free money for that all while passing out make-overs, free cupcakes, etc., to working girls in town while not requiring them to do any pesky old thing like get off drugs, leave their pimp or quit the sex industry in order to get these perks - and then they make this outrageous claim that "women with a prostitution record can't find work with those records" in order to get a law passed which wipes out that record with only a judge's signature. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />Now our group, www.sexworkersanonymous.com, had been in Nevada since the 1980's and we didn't have one single problem getting anyone coming to us for help with a job outside of sex work so why the bogus claim? &nbsp;There's only one thing you need in Nevada you can't get with a prostitution conviction on your record - and that's a license to work at a legal brothel in Nevada. &nbsp;Period. &nbsp;Now the only other way to get those records dismissed or expunged previously was to (1) come in with a lawyer to get the case redone entirely, or (2) come into our group and actually quit the sex industry, get off drugs, and then with work we'd do jointly with the court show them your life had changed - and then you can get your records over turned. &nbsp;Something the brothels don't want to bother when when wanting to hire a woman with a record I assure you. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />If you look at all of the press done by the Review Journal into the Cupcake Girls at that time, not one word was mentioned about how our program had no problem finding jobs for callers to our hotline in over 30 years, nor was any mention made of the fact one of their own board members had a record for prostitution yet she was holding down a union job all this time and yet she didn't have any problems either finding work with a conviction. &nbsp;You see not one word is mentioned about our program who had given a press conference in 2007 about the issue of sex trafficking in Nevada - so it's a clear omission of anything to do with us like we don't even exist. &nbsp;In other words, the Nevada assembly participated in a complete sham designed to benefit the legal brothel industry of Nevada at the expense of the one group who has been helping victims of those same brothels since the 1980's. &nbsp; Something easy to do when you have men like Joohoon David Lee in your pocket threatening anyone, including us, who gets in the way also of these powers that be. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />If you dig into the dates - you can see that heads didn't start rolling until the same year that Oscar Goodman ceased being the mayor of Las Vegas. &nbsp;The year he steps down is the same year that Chief Gillispie gets arrested, Charles Horkey gets arrested, Karen Hughes decides to split the scene before an Internal Affairs investigation can get launched into her actions, and it's just like one long list of heads rolling after he steps down. &nbsp;Meaning anyone can see who was propping up these guys. &nbsp;Can anyone say "my son is the prosecutor" by the way? &nbsp;Look it up - Oscar Goodman's son was the Las Vegas prosecutor for some time. &nbsp;Might explain why Buffalo Jim had enough GHB in his system to kill 10 elephants in a toxicology report which had to be stolen from the coroners office for everyone to see it - yet when it was released finally no cases were filed against against anyone despite the well known fact Rick Rizzolo had put a hand written death threat on Jim's car handle the day he was released from prison. &nbsp;In fact, it was his first reported action upon release from jail. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />Anyway, what's being done about it? &nbsp;Has the trainings been changed to show the airport security what to do when they suspect someone on their team or another employee is the one involved in sex trafficking? &nbsp;No because the committees who made the trainings were overseen by men just like Joohoon David Lee who were making sure that the trainings avoided anything to do with something like them by making sure they were on these committees making the trainings and survivors of this type of trafficking from groups like ours were completely shut out of the process. &nbsp;Kind of like asking Nazi's to make training films on how to chase down Nazi's to bring them to justice in other words. &nbsp;Kind of a joke actually when you look back now - but no one wanted to listen to us saying this was a bad idea when it was going down because "who the hell we were" but just a bunch of survivors who knew how those things operated right? &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />But when the funding to pay for the training was hijacked out from under us and handed to the "faith based groups" as George W. did with the revision to the TVRA of 2002 which accomplished this - well again then it's like handing over the money to create pro-choice training materials by pro-life groups. &nbsp;What you get are training tapes that serve Joohoon's purpose entirely - which was to get eyes off him and onto his "competitors". &nbsp;This way he gets to shut down the competitors to his operation while supporting his won. &nbsp;Kind of like putting Al Capone in charge of the shutting down of bootleggers during Prohibition. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />The same funding which would be needed to create any type of campaign to have the laws changed to make sure that guys like him are prevented from being in positions where they can do this again, as well as to get laws passed which would remove the immunity from what they did and also to take away their pensions when caught doing such things to American men and women. &nbsp;Which is why I applaud this press for talking about what's going on right here with these agents right now - it's showing why we have to have an "outside" agency that's (1) survivor led, and (2) not dependent upon government money who can have their jobs threatened, or their grants threatened, in order to silence them from talking against people they see in the system who are engaging in not just corruption but also domestic sex trafficking. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />All while the Cupcake Girls was probably on the receiving end of some of that $10 million Charlie admits spending to try and cover his ass. &nbsp;Charlie admits starting to spend it in 2011 - same year they start flying into Nevada throwing around money and "making friends" while pushing our group over to the side. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;We didn't report back to Charlie Sheen about the whereabouts of sex workers who were admitting they knew about his HIV positive status, among other things. &nbsp; Nor did the information we get on our hotline wind up in a computer database people like Constable Bonaventure are able to tap into whenever they get an itch to do illegal background checks on porn stars as he was caught doing. &nbsp;A database that collects information on sex workers to which we don't contribute. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />Why else where this group given a "hospitality suite" at the AVN awards. &nbsp;For what? Giving out free make-overs? &nbsp;That sure would piss off hair stylists and make-up artists who make their living off doing that sort of thing for a living. &nbsp; No again this is about "putting on a show" while pumping for information being used for purposes other than what it was intended to be used for. &nbsp;And making real darn sure anyone in trouble doesn't know about hotlines like ours not connected to, or under the control of, men like Joohoon David Lee before he got caught and was also on all the trafficking task forces and projects in the tri-state area of CA, NV, and AZ as he was. &nbsp; I'll guarantee you while he was in office not one single case of legitimate sex trafficking was reported. &nbsp;A fact then twisted up by SWOP to make another false claim they "don't exist". &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />That's like a dog catcher shooting any dogs he sees on sight and then when returning to the point at the end of the day saying "I don't have any dogs so wherefore dogs must not exist". &nbsp;I saw that game in 2007 when ATLAS came into Nevada with over a million dollars in grant money, who refused any of our calls on behalf of victims in NV, and then at the end of 2007 said "zero cases reported" while our hotline had clocked 300 calls from NV victims alone that year. &nbsp;A fact the media never heard about because also of ATLAS and men like Lee speaking up over our voices and the media refusing to listen to anything us survivors had to say on the issues. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />When Joohoon was first arrested all I heard was "this was just one bad apple" so I want to thank you for doing this story and proving that no this was not just "one bad apple" to be buried under the rug and ignored. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />We have a SERIOUS problem in this country and it's one that I devoted my life to changing in 1984 when I took a warehouse and turned it into the first safe house for adult sex trafficking victims in the USA. &nbsp;NOT PIMPING VICTIMS MIND YOU - BUT TRAFFICKING VICTIMS. &nbsp;Difference? &nbsp;Back in 1984 if you had a pimp problem you called 911 and he was arrested immediately. &nbsp; However, trafficking victims as they're called now were viewed as mobsters were before the RICO Act was passed - as not existing at all. &nbsp;So they were being ignored completely or treated as "criminals". &nbsp;Hence why the only thing I could think of to do was create the warehouse for them as a "safe house". &nbsp; Only to find myself falsely arrested and charged as "running a brothel" to cover up the evidence of what that warehouse represented. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />So I regrouped and came back with our 12 step program and hotline in 1987 which was the first ever to provide an "alternative to incarceration" for these victims. &nbsp;It was our work and our stories and members who all made the Trafficking Act of 2000 pass. &nbsp;Only what's happened is the system has agreed to stop arresting the females as "prostitutes" in exchange for being able to do two things (1) they're not just arresting the "johns" who we need as witnesses to the sex trafficking who now can't speak up because they're incriminate themselves further which is not only just silencing them, but it's driving them into "legal" venues to get their needs met which makes finding victims even harder to do so than now, thus encouraging and protecting real sex traffickers, and (2) taking the drug war off being waged on African American men and instead "doubling down" on them 10 times HARDER under the smoke screen of calling them now "sex traffickers". &nbsp;So in reality the prisons are now releasing one drug addict and putting two "traffickers" back in for longer sentences! &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />What a complete mockery this whole thing is making of our legal system again! &nbsp;Things have got to change and one can't write up policy on how to help an alcoholic get sober without involving Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous as they've been doing. &nbsp;We are the only ones who don't have some political or financial "dog in this race". &nbsp;All we're trying to do is to get help to those who want help to leave sex work INCLUDING those forced into it by pimps and sex traffickers as well as poverty, mental illness, disability, lack of education, etc. &nbsp;Something we can't do while men like him are in charge of the systems we need to be a part of. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />The end result is that when victims like Celeste Guap feel they have nowhere to go for help other than the media - and then when they ask for help they're carted off to some program by cops where they're framed, their case is completely compromised, and they further are facing now criminal charges trumped up against them designed to shut them up in the same identical manner as was done to me in 1984 to shut me up - we got a problem when we've not made any progress in these 30 years separating her case and mine yet a lot of people have received a lot of money to supposedly help us. &nbsp;Instead all that money has gone into one huge data collection such as what Polaris represents who has now "partnered" with Google and Palantir Technologies who is pushing to fed medical data on victims into computers which are then just stolen from them by the traffickers - again supporting sex trafficking by default. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />It's all got to change and the evidence you've provided here shows he was not "just a bad apple" but in fact representative of why we have to change the systems offering help to these victims today. &nbsp;Thank you for doing this because they sure aren't listening to just us about this issue. &nbsp;<br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d;" />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-6813335892716824202017-05-14T08:32:00.000-07:002017-05-14T08:32:23.149-07:00LETTER SENT TO CONTRA COSTA COUNTY INCLUDING POLICE ACADEMY<div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dear Contra Costa County:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We need to talk. &nbsp;When I was in this "Celeste Guap"s" same shoes myself back in 1984, and the LAPD was trying to also silence me about what I knew about police involvement in sex trafficking, I don't mean having sex with underage hookers, but I mean actual involvement in domestic sex trafficking - one of the places they sent me during my harassment and trying to "frame" me somehow, someway, for a conviction of some kind - was to ship me off to Contra Costa County on a fake charge there. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So the kinds of things that has been going on with people like Celeste has been going on at least THIRTY FOUR YEARS now by my count. &nbsp;Let me ask you something - if you are a minority juvenile Hispanic female living in this part of the country and a male uniformed cop just simply "asks" you for sex while your mother is a 911 operator whose very job depends upon her continuing to be in the "good graces" of the police - tell me if that is not another form of "coercion" where this girl might not only be tempted to say "yes" but even to act like she "wanted it" in order to protect her mother's job? <br /><br />I heard recently of a training provided to police cadets about the type of pimps who are often found on Backpage. &nbsp;That of the African American pimp. &nbsp;Now I know California police cadets are trained what to do when an African American street pimp needs to be found, arrested, convicted, etc. by listening to a public radio broadcast I heard recently about this training provided by "Game Over" to cadets on how to take down such criminals - but let me ask you another question - have you provided trainings for your police cadets, and other related agencies like the sheriffs' office on what to do when the person who is involved in sex trafficking is instead:<br /><br />1. &nbsp; Joohoon David Lee</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. &nbsp; Chris Butler</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3. &nbsp; Kemp Shiffer<br /><br />I ask you this because Joohoon David Lee was actively bringing women over to this country from China through LAX using his Homeland Security badge and connections while also serving on the local sex trafficking task force for this region as well as Immigration. &nbsp;Not one of the training materials I found for LAX personnel included what to do when a man like that was walking his victims right past LAX security. <br /><br />I know that because when I tried to report what victims of his were telling me to these authorities no one had a clue how to even respond to my calls, let alone what to do about the guy. &nbsp;I do know someone told him about my calls because he switched over from bringing Chinese women into this country to Korean women instead to throw off the trail so to speak and further try and convince anyone talking about my calls "oh that Jody is just crazy" as predators do by the way. <br /><br />After not getting anyone to listen to me about him for YEARS, all while he was running around the trafficking field in this region talking about "don't listen to Jody - she's crazy" as the chant goes for anyone I've tried to get brought down for sex trafficking here in this country - I finally managed to get the people over at the Office for Professional Responsibility to open an investigation into what he was doing.<br /><br />Now during the time Joohoon was actually involved in trafficking personally - he was having to also appear to be "doing his job". &nbsp;This meant falsely framing an entire family who were completely innocent. &nbsp;This family is reported to have contacted Joohoon's boss at Homeland Security about the situation where they were told supposedly "yes we know what he's doing but there's nothing we can do about it". &nbsp;This was told to innocent people right here on American soil mind you while I couldn't get anyone to help me with the victims clear back to "Operation Dollhouse" in 2007. <br /><br />This man was driving a limo up to his sentencing hearings while working for CLS Limo owned by Charles Horkey. &nbsp;A man who also was found guilty of sex trafficking, as well as crimes of drugging his patrons while maxing out their credit cards. &nbsp;Men he targeted who were frequenting massage parlors, strip clubs, and other venues where he could easily attempt to blackmail them out of filing charges by reminding them of where he'd picked them up to have this happen to them. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A man who shared a lobbyist with a group called the "Cupcake Girls" who were brought in to try and make it appear again this man was actually "doing something" about sex trafficking while in reality not by people who would back up his false stories. &nbsp;A lobbyist who then went to the Nevada legislature to get a law passed that would take women with prostitution convictions and allow them to have it overturned with a judge's signature allowing them to go get a brothel prostitute license to work in Nevada I should add also to the outline here of what happens when the issue of sex trafficking is being worked on by groups who are actively shunning our program in the process because I'm wanting to show you a pattern here. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like Chris Butler's situation. &nbsp;This man was an ex-cop of 20 years who went into private investigation. &nbsp;He opened his own company and even went on the Dr. Phil show explaining that he hired sexy "investigators" to do "husband cheating stings" when there was a deeper, darker reason why he was hiring these women. &nbsp;In reality these women were coming onto wealthy businessmen and then drugging them at bars. &nbsp;After slipping them drugs - the men were invited "back to their place" for sex.<br /><br />Only when the men would set foot in their cars to do so, another "friend" of Chris' who was an active duty cop would be there to stop the man, DUI test him, and then finding he was in fact under the influence, along with a hot lady in his car, threaten to arrest him for a DUI knowing he would object because he wouldn't want his wife to find out about the woman in the car. &nbsp;Neither his boss about a DUI with a hooker in the car. &nbsp;Making the man vulnerable to paying a bribe to the cops doing this. <br /><br />What did Chris get out of feeding these victims to bad cops? &nbsp;He was also running his own prostitution operation. &nbsp;He owned some massage parlors where he would take women he knew weren't undercover police because they'd been arrested previously to work in the place. &nbsp;Then he'd obtain drugs through the evidence lockers brought in by his other cop friends and resell these drugs through his massage parlor using his prostitutes as the mules and dealers just in case anyone was caught on an undercover video or sting operation. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This way he also avoided anyone getting caught through any undercover investigations the Attorney General's office may have tried to get done against his operation which spanned quite a few states for many years I'd like to add. &nbsp;Especially since they used other cops, sheriffs, and marshals' cars to transport the drugs, guns, stolen items, and even the sex trafficking victims while avoiding anyone being stopped by a cop who wasn't a part of their operation while transporting these items. &nbsp;If they were stopped - then a simple "I'm taking them in" would answer any questions and they'd move on.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had gone to a lot of effort to try and get Joe Conforte arrested who used to own the Mustang Ranch in Nevada. &nbsp;Thinking back to Al Capone - the only way &nbsp;I could think of getting him arrested was through the IRS. &nbsp;Which through a madam I had helped to get clean and free of him - we were able to get his "real" books to the IRS who then came down and took over control of the ranch from him. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I thought this would allow us to get the women being trafficked against their will out of there with him gone. &nbsp;Especially with the control Joe had over local police and politicians. &nbsp;Remember, this guy shot a famous boxer down in cold blood in front of a cop and didn't spend one day in jail nor even get arrested over this murder. &nbsp;Victims of his were drug back to the ranch by cops using the "curfew" laws that exist in the cities where these legal brothels operate. <br /><br />Little did I know that an ex-cop named Kemp Shiffer who had become an IRS agent would realize that the legal age for sex in Nevada was 15 years old. &nbsp;Something important for a California pedophile to know about. &nbsp;So following the "law", Kemp started transporting juvenile females from Oakland, California to the ranch and using work permits obtained to work in the "restaurant" for 16 year old girls - putting these girls inside of those legal brothels at ages too young to even legally vote, smoke or even drink alcohol or smoke a cigarette I'd like to add. &nbsp;He would get many of these girls out of group homes who had no parents or adults to object also who didn't know what he was doing while talking about how he was "going to get them a legal job" to get them into his car and signed out to his control. <br /><br />All perfectly LEGAL I'd like to add. &nbsp;Which is why when I went to the IRS and the police about it originally they said there was "nothing they could do" about it other than fire him from the IRS. &nbsp;So he was able to continue what he was doing for another 11 years before he was finally arrested for sex trafficking. &nbsp;For 12 years of doing this - he was given a two year sentence by the way for his crimes against these girls.&nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No effort was made to contact all 12 years of his victims either nor to contact the cops who were arresting these juveniles as prostitutes and giving him "tips" as to who would be good women to target once they knew they weren't "undercover police" who might turn them in for what they were doing. &nbsp;Young girls on probation who could be threatened into not going to the press also by the way with threats of dragging them off to jail on probation violations. <br /><br />For years after I started Prostitutes Anonymous later renamed to Sex Workers Anonymous in 1995 - I had the full support of police departments I'd like you to know. &nbsp;I say that because the first alternative sentencing and diversion program we put together in Los Angeles county was done under the full support of then mayor Tom Bradley, Sheriff Block, Chief Gates, and California Attorney General Edwin Meese who was working on the Meese Commission back then trying to help what was happening to the porn industry back then. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had great success with that program and it led to us creating the first outreach teams to the sex industry to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. &nbsp;That was so effective that within one year we had reduced the infection rate among sex workers from over 80 % to 6 % which was lower than that of the "non-sex worker community" I'd like to add. &nbsp;We were the people who even got the porn industry to voluntarily start making "safe sex" films to try and lead the "consumers" to wanting to practice safe sex because of the fact we too were once sex workers ourselves.&nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In fact, an ex-porn star back then was made a doctor and the AIM Clinic was opened to provide HIV/AIDS testing to the porn/sex industry exclusively because the industry was reluctant to use the same facilities for testing as "non-industry" people. &nbsp;I say that because that clinic was able to stop some serious STD and HIV/AIDS &nbsp;outbreaks over the years while they were open before they were shut down in my opinion by people who deliberately set out to get them shut down because of their knowledge of who was who in the sex industry and because they were a trusted point of contact within the industry.<br /><br />I say that because our group underwent the same type of attack, smear campaign, etc., about the same time as the AIM Clinic, and many other points of contact within the sex industry did at the same time. &nbsp;Why were we attacked?<br /><br />For reasons I believe the Celeste Guap case illustrates well for one thing. &nbsp;For another, because a lot of money was being prepared to be sent out and cut up to help "sex trafficking victims" and the last thing certain people wanted was to have people like myself and Dr. Mitchell involved on those trafficking task forces. &nbsp;Again why? &nbsp;Again back to the story of Celeste Guap as your answer. &nbsp;Because there were a lot of people who didn't want victims to be able to get to us mostly who weren't being controlled by these people trying to silence their victims.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That or even their "guilty conscience". &nbsp;I want to tell you a quick story about that ground breaking alternative sentencing program which was launched in LA back in 1987. &nbsp;The Mayor said to get things going we had to get the approval of everyone on every public office such as probation, parole, social services, mental health, the CDC, the prison, police, etc. &nbsp;He said once I had a letter from each office agreeing to work with us as an "alternative" method for these victims to get help instead of treating them like criminals - we would start the process. <br /><br />Everyone immediately agreed that getting these victims into services and counseling was preferable to treating them like criminals and carting them off to jail. &nbsp;Everyone EXCEPT the man who was the head of the Probation Dept. &nbsp;I couldn't get him to answer the phone and tell me why he was refusing to sign the letter either. &nbsp;So I got into my car and drove two hours to Downey to knock on his door and ask him what the problem was. <br /><br />When I got there, he got onto the phone with me and said he "didn't agree" with the idea and he tried to brush me off. &nbsp;Being how I am - I pushed into his office to demand to speak with him in person about his objections. &nbsp;When I walked into his office and faced him - I immediately knew what the problem was. &nbsp;This man had been a "regular" of mine for some years when I myself was a prostitute. <br /><br />I closed the door and said to him that he of all people should be supporting getting these women into services instead of sending them off to jail being as he saw the kinds of things going on with them. &nbsp;I asked him why he would object to this program. &nbsp;His answer was simple - fear of discovery about his activities. &nbsp;I assured him the last thing we wanted to do was this and he had our discretion of course. &nbsp;This allowed him to sign the letter and for our program to launch. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Only I'm dealing with his type of guilt now all over the state and country. &nbsp;I can show you case after case after case where a judge, a prosecutor, probation officer, and all of the above in some counties are involved as "consumers" of these victims who don't even view them as victims because their conscience won't allow them to. &nbsp;You would be surprised at the lengths I've heard these men go to in order to convince themselves the women they were seeing were not being victimized by pimps and/or traffickers because they just don't want to see themselves this way. &nbsp;Even now I'm sure you'll be hearing from men who will justify their behavior by saying things like "Celeste asked for it" or "consented" or "look at her - does she look like an underage girl", etc., to justify what they did.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Which was to remove the ability of a victim to be able to call the police for help by these actions. &nbsp;Not just by what you're reading about in the press either - but also by excluding our program from their trafficking outreach efforts for whatever reasons they've been handing out to cover up the simple reality of why they were really excluding us from a party we threw to begin with back in the 1980's. <br /><br />Now I'm speaking to police, and other agencies, on a regular basis who are in a terrible quandary. &nbsp; I bring this up for a case I can refer to going on in Florida where some guards are responsible for the death of an inmate. &nbsp;The guards who blew the whistle on their actions were subjected to horrible retaliation. <br /><br />I want to point you to this case in California where a witness was "lost" for 3 days in the jail. &nbsp;The only officer I know of who was prosecuted in the matter was the one who brought this victim a phone to call for help. &nbsp;I know that since our program was taken out of the loop of being connected to anyone coming out of sex work and allowing us to help to determine what type of services they needed because victims were going to be more open to us than they are with the authorities - I myself have found myself being completely shut out of being able to go to the authorities myself with information the victims are telling me about. <br /><br />I want to point you if I might to this case recently in Irvine where two women were arrested in an international sex trafficking operation. &nbsp;I want you to know I knew about those women years ago, and I also know they are not the top of the food chain based on what victims have told me. &nbsp;I want you to know that I started trying to go to the authorities about the operation back in 2006. &nbsp;Only I found myself being so shut out of law enforcement circles by people within the force trying to cover their own ass, officers like Officer Armendariz out of Arizona as another example, that its one reason I brought in a reporter to help us expose not only Chris Butler, but also "Operation Dollhouse" clear back in 2007. <br /><br />So those women in Irvine not being arrested until a few months ago is another result I can show you of what's happened since these predators and "johns" were allowed to shut us out of the process here involving sex workers and "victims" of not just pimping, but sex trafficking. &nbsp;A difference not being taught to your academy cadets currently because of again many men trying to "cover their own ass". <br /><br />Another problem with this whole issue being left as it is - is that I've been getting an increasing number of phone calls every year from good solid decent cops, sheriffs, marshalls, and other law enforcement officers who are telling me they're leaving the field because of again cases like what's happened in Florida and this other "lost witness" case are illustrating - that the people who seem to be getting attacked aren't the criminals - but instead the "whistle blowers". &nbsp;If anyone has seen films like the "Departed" then you know how hard it is right now to be able to even get a case investigated properly against someone like Whitey was because of the level of corruption within the system true - but it's more than that. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The case of what Charlie Sheen was hiding, and the money he spent, and the influence he's had on California's treatment of prostitutes has been profound because he's had a lot of money and celebrity to back up what he was covering up for years about his HIV/AIDS status. &nbsp;I say that because I believe he was one of the reasons behind the push to stop arresting juveniles for prostitution in California. &nbsp;In fact, I think a lot of people who are again like those who victimized Celeste jumped on the bandwagon when it came to a good sounding idea to "stop arresting these girls" supposedly to "help them". <br /><br />Not true. &nbsp;First of all, it's only when they're arrested can they be tested for HIV/AIDS and their medical records made public so that statistics can be gathered on the amount of them infected for one thing. &nbsp;Numbers which funding for services is completely dependent upon I"d like to add. &nbsp;I'd also like to add this was supported by the AHF led by Michael Weinstein who I believe was supporting not having juveniles arrested and tested for HIV/AIDS again for political and financial reasons that had nothing to do with HIV/AIDS. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because we don't have any statistics for the numbers of juvenile prostitutes who have HIV/AIDS - then there's a great excuse here to not talk about the fact I'm now seeing numbers of sex workers, both adult and juveniles, across this country who are infected with this virus, and other STD's, GREATER than I used to see in the 1980's I'd like you to be aware of. <br /><br />I believe the push to stop arresting them had more to do with the fact that once arrested than an investigation starts. &nbsp;An investigation into who might be pimping and buying them for one thing. &nbsp;An investigation which men like Charlie Sheen didn't want to come out in the press - as well as the men involved in this Celeste Guap case either. <br /><br />Meaning that the "good old seasoned" cops who used to be able to take a cadet under their wing and help them out if they were to see another officer involved in such things as this Guap case reveal to us - are telling me they've been leaving the force for some time now in record numbers also because of how "upside down" things have become for a while now. &nbsp;Again, I want you to think about the culture that men like Joohoon, Chris and Kemp have created in California alone over the last 20 years that all went into this Guap case happening.<br /><br />A culture that needs to change and one that to change is going to require "re-involving" us with the issues here. &nbsp;I say that from ground zero to witness protection also because of the way she was handled by victim services even being completely wrong. &nbsp;This woman at no time was provided with access to ANYONE &nbsp;who understood that the police force was going to be against her from the gate. &nbsp;Including a series of events which happened which I believe was her being framed by these same men trying to cover their ass, and also a system trying to protect itself from her lawsuits, who were not putting her best interests FIRST. <br /><br />Which is another reason why I believe our program was cut out of the Victim Services loop because otherwise there's no way she would have been allowed to be put on that plane as she was to Florida otherwise. &nbsp;I would have stopped it immediately, and I would have put her instead into a local treatment program we use on our members we have come to know and trust over the years as having the services, staff, etc., who know how to properly treat someone in her situation as to her best interests.<br /><br />I also think we need to open up a dialogue about what we're going to do in order to start training police officers about what to do when they see someone like Chris Butler in front of them not only involved in crime himself - but also then trying to suck them up into the whole thing as Chris did also. &nbsp;I can show you grown active duty cops he had terrified of him - and then I ask you what you think prostitutes were feeling about the guy if grown active cops were scared to death of his power? &nbsp;I can assure you that because there was no safe system in place for witnesses to what he was doing - that's why someone went to the press first about him to get something done to shut him down. <br /><br />Again things have to change. &nbsp;Just replacing people isn't changing anything as I think Mayor Libby might have learned after the 3rd guy she made Police Chief who had involvement with Celeste. &nbsp;Things STILL aren't changing either. &nbsp;I know my phone's not ringing about it. &nbsp;I know that when we tried doing our own outreach campaign into the Oakland, Redding, etc., areas back in 2011 - we got so many threats by active duty police officers to myself and our members I had to call off the whole operation. &nbsp;The problem with that is also this - would you &nbsp;like to know how many young women have gone missing in that region who are suspected sex trafficking victims now? <br /><br />Women who I might have been able to find if not for the threats and interference. &nbsp;I say that because BEFORE, when we were actively working WITH law enforcement we used to find young victims in HOURS. &nbsp;Routinely. &nbsp;Not once in a blue moon. &nbsp;We in fact had found so many juvenile victims through our hotline and our connections that a film was made about one of those case histories called "Fighting for my Daughter" with Lindsey Wagner playing a mother who had called me for help finding her daughter being held against her will by a pimp up in Canada. &nbsp;A film made in 1995. &nbsp;So yes there was a time when "working together" WAS WORKING. <br /><br />So I'm writing you today to find out what can we do to open up a dialogue here? &nbsp;I'd like to open up a dialogue about coming in preparing some trainings for these various offices on what we know about modern day domestic sex trafficking, not just "pimping" but actual organized sex trafficking operations. &nbsp;The difference to us being the difference between that of a lone criminal who hangs out with other criminals vs. that of organized crime hence why the RICO Act changed things. <br /><br />The Trafficking Act of 2000 also changed things but because this was like alcohol in that it was something the system/officers also partook in and were involved in also themselves - it's been a challenge for us to create a system where instead of looking only to the "outside" for the criminals in this issue we have to look at EVERYONE. &nbsp;Including men with badges and offices as public defenders and on the bench even. <br /><br />Which won't be accomplished by victims/survivors who are being put out there by groups trying to get federal grants I can assure you. &nbsp;They won't want to risk the kind of "displeasure" talking about these issues 100 % honestly is going to bring down on them. &nbsp;They won't risk their jobs nor their grants by being as honest as we need them to be in other words. <br /><br />I'm not trying to get promoted. &nbsp;I'm not trying to get a grant. &nbsp;I'm not trying to organize a fund raiser. &nbsp;I'm not trying to get a job. &nbsp;The ONLY thing I'm concerned about right now is to make sure things like what happened to Celeste Guap, and others like Margo Compton, do not happen again. &nbsp;That victims start knowing they can call the police for help - and not think their only options to find help is to go to the press like Celeste Guap did, as did the victims involved with Eliot Spitzer when his tape was leaked to the press for that reason. &nbsp;I mean how does one get help when the person you have to get to help you is the prosecutor himself? &nbsp;That's why those tapes were leaked about Spitzer starting his press attack - the victims didn't know they could reach out to us in other words and get help that way by bypassing him entirely. <br /><br />You need more good cops. &nbsp;Which you're losing I can assure you because many are seeing this type of corruption and abuse and feeling they have no recourse to do anything about it, and to protect themselves, they leave the force entirely. &nbsp;I can point you as one example to a man like Claude Arnold. &nbsp;That man was making amazing, good, solid, powerful arrests into powerful trafficking figures in this region of southern California and then WHAM! &nbsp;Suddenly he's out working for an auction house? &nbsp;I can't speak for this man personally - but I can read those news clips and I can see what happened there plain as day. <br /><br />So I'm writing to your offices again hoping now with time you've started to see why we need to start talking to each other for one thing. &nbsp;I'd like to set up some kind of workshop or conference where we can all sit down and talk about these issues together as a team about what can be done to change things.&nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'd also like to talk about some trainings I used to do for the police academies and other "in services" i used to do to help raise awareness about what sex trafficking looks like, how it operates, and also what to do about it when finding it, even when it involves someone these people work with. &nbsp;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can be reached at (702) 488-1127 any day after noon. &nbsp;Thank you for listening to our concerns and desires. <br /><br />Jody Williams</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.sexworkersanonymous.com</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.hightechmadam.com<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-61492984042876444242017-05-13T20:58:00.000-07:002017-05-13T20:58:50.659-07:00FCC LETTER ABOUT MEDIA "FAKE NEWS"<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Ajit Pai, Chairman<br />Federal Communications Commission</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Via Email </span></span><a href="mailto:Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">David Lougee, </span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">President</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">National Broadcasters Association</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Via Email - nab@nab.org</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">National Newspaper Association</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Matthew Paxton, President</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Via Email </span></span><a href="mailto:publisher@thenews-gazette.com"><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">publisher@thenews-gazette.com</span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #0a0a0a;"><span style="font-family: &quot;roboto&quot; , &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">California Newspaper Publishers Association</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Michelle Chantry, President</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Email - <a href="mailto:simon@cnpa.com">simon@cnpa.com</a></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Senate Intelligence Committee</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Via Fax to Members</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Re: Truth in Media's Connection to a True Democracy and a Free Press</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Dear Concerned:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I'm writing this letter essentially to the attention of the FCC, but I'm also addressing it to related media organizations. I have been writing for years to the attention of Ted Wheeler as the FCC's previous Chairman only to receive no response back. However, over the years I haven't b een able to provide the documentation I now believe I have collected to show not only is the “collective wool” being pulled over the public's eyes on certain subjects such as domestic sex trafficking, but that this “wool” is being used to very damaging ends. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Ends which I can also document right on down to what I believe involved a murder of a man which might not have been totally in “self defense” as the trial of Neal Falls was carried out essentially in the media since his death was denied any proper investigation into his death otherwise. I say this because I received a phone call on our hotline for Sex Workers Anonymous not long after saying he was in fact “murdered” during the time of the media buzz that followed the case. A phone call I tried to take the police, and the ensuing media campaign, only to be completely rebuffed and ignored. Something I assure you had this happened pre-1995 I don't think I would have received the same “cold shoulder”.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I haven't known what to do about the things I've been seeing, nor do I really know now even still what to do about what I'm witnessing in the media other than I've been told repeatedly I “need to file a complaint with the FCC” about it. At one point I had decided to sue Relativity Media and A&amp;E for a “defamacast” for their show “8 Minutes” only to have them completely yank the show off the air and off the internet entirely when they got my demand letter. I thought that was the end of it UNTIL I saw those shows being used to fund raise and affect legislation down in the midwest just a few months ago.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">However, for me to file “a complaint” with the FCC about these variously faked news articles would involve so many individual complaints spanning over a period of years. But I decided to start doing it anyway. As I started to do this however, I realized that taken individually, and not viewed over “time”, one doesn't really understand the damage this “fake” media is doing. Which I don't believe would be something which could have been accomplished on this level had not the Telecommunications Act of 1995 passed which is when everything changed.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To explain to you what I mean in “real world” terms you might grasp, you would first have to know more about who I am. My name is Jody Williams and in 1984 I was witnessing what has now been called “Iran Contra” up close and personal being as I was born and raised in Los Angeles in the 60's. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I soon learned there was nowhere for victims of what is now called “domestic sex trafficking” to go for help back in the 70's and 80's because we literally had no where to turn being as we were branded “criminals” by the state or non-existent at all. We had no witnesses to our defense being they'd have to not only incriminate themselves to do so, align themselves with a “criminal” - but further endanger their careers and personal lives to do so. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980's had made anyone and everyone scared to even admit us into their homes for safety. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Forcing me in my view to take matters into my own hands by taking an old warehouse and turning it into what I have later learned was the first “safe house” for adults in this country. I say “adults” as a qualifier because the first one for juveniles had been created by Lois Lee with Children of the Night. It was truly a “war zone” back then and when she took up helping kids – I tried to do what I could to help adults. I installed a lot of security and surveillance equipment on this warehouse to protect everyone being as we were being attacked literally by LAPD, the FBI, CIA, as well as pimps, gang members, and other assorted criminals. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Only I didn't realize how our government deals with people getting in their way often is to “frame” them to the level they went. I had some idea these people would attempt to frame me so I took great steps to make sure everything I had done was “legal” to avoid this potential. I didn't even drink or use drugs back then out of fear it would be used against me. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This didn't stop these people from framing me anyway as a “pimp” in a very high profiled arrest in 1984 where the media dubbed me “The High Tech Madam”. The nickname was to explain all of the security and surveillance equipment in this warehouse in the news at a time when my attorney was advising me not to speak to the media to defend or explain myself. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Since there wasn't one shred of evidence against me and I had done nothing I was accused of or even wrong for that matter, the police arrested my mother and charged her with “pimping” me. The grounds? A photo of her handing me a bucket of KFC chicken and me handing her a $20 bill. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Yep that ridiculous. Evidently the “pimping” law states “receipt of money from a prostitute”. Since I was considered a “prostitute” that was their grounds for arresting my mother as a felony pimp.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But it was silly enough for us to fight them back anyway. To which they then threatened to take away my mother's disability pension from the county of Los Angeles and also to arrest my then 70 year old grandmother for “pimping” me if I didn't accept a plea bargain. Something for which at her age I didn't think she'd survive the booking process. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><b>Now I ask you how am I truly going to defend myself anyway had I choose to instead fight this case when I know that the minute I explain what that warehouse was set up for in reality - some men in suits were going to show up claiming “national security” and shutting me down?</b></i> That was if I lived long enough to see a courtroom . As it was my attorney was already receiving threats from the police/government to “back away” from helping me as well as death threats to me. They'd confiscated all of my money and belongings so I couldn't hire another attorney if I wanted to as I was left penniless. So I wasn't left with a lot of options back then.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So in 1987, I was cleared off probation and my attorney cleared me to speak in the media about the “truth” of what was involved in my arrest you can read about at <a href="http://www.hightechmadam.com/">www.hightechmadam.com</a> It was after realizing this approach of a safe house wasn't going to work, I reached out to consult with then mayor Tom Bradley, Sheriff Block, Chief Gates, and California Attorney General Edwin Meese. They had witnessed what was going on also – but realized there weren't any laws on the books to help us then either. It was with their advice and counsel they allowed me to see that the laws regarding prostitution was not going to change, and also in defense as to why they wouldn't change. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Their advice also helped me to form the program originally called “Prostitutes Anonymous” and the related hotline. This was created as a 12 step group in order to take advantage of laws “grand fathered” in by Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous for one thing such as confidentiality to members. The other was because it would be allowed to be used as an “alternative to incarceration” for those people who were in fact “victims” vs. true “criminals”. With their help, we went and and created the first ever official “alternative sentencing and diversion” program for sex workers in Los Angeles, California.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Some of you may not remember what it was like back then – but the idea of “domestic sex trafficking” was so foreign back then there wasn't even a name or word for it yet. Identical to how this country didn't have any type of system set in place to fight organized crime either before the RICO Act came to pass. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But the RICO Act wouldn't have even come to pass had it not been for some real life mobsters coming forward with their story in the media such as when Joe Valachi was one of the first men to start talking to the outside world that the “mob” was in fact a real living breathing entity in this country. Which watching how the “mafia” was birthed into federal recognition, gave me a template on how to do the same with respect to American modern sex trafficking. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A problem which had the same challenges also because who before the RICO Act could also have come forward to testify against them either without (1) being branded as “crazy” and/or (2) incriminating themselves? <i> Just as the only true witnesses to the Italian mobsters back then were only those involved in some criminal fashion – so too was the challenge we had with modern domestic sex trafficking.</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Watching how films like “The Valachi Papers” and even the “Godfather” changed things, and using this issue as a model, I stepped up on that first national talk show stage of a Sally Jesse Raphael show in 1987 to speak. Not just to enlighten the public about the realities of the sex industry that wasn't being told in media, <b>but also to clear my name.</b> I did not want to go down in history as a “pimp” and that warehouse to be branded a “whore house” by the media for the rest of my life.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The TRUTH about everything led me on a path which carried this whole country into seeing the Trafficking Act of 2000 passed. Up until 1995, I did so much TV, radio and press about the issues connected to these things – that I literally couldn't walk into a gas station in Omaha, Nebraska without the cashier going “hey aren't you that Prostitutes Anonymous lady?”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">But in 1995 everything flipped upside down when the Telecommunications Act of 1995 passed. Only I didn't know it as that then. All I knew was things changed suddenly overnight and I had no idea why by 1996 I couldn't get arrested on TV figuratively speaking. If you look at some of the news and video clips I have up at my site – you'll see they come to an abrupt halt in 1995. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Let me explain the power of the truth in media for a moment. In 1988, Joe Conforte “bought” himself a rigged study which falsely made it appear that “no LEGAL brothel prostitute has HIV/AIDS”. Joe Conforte is the man who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada back in the 1970's – the Mustang Ranch. He had decided to expand this empire into California using HIV/AIDS as his marketing platform. So armed with his “study”, he deposited $1,000,000 into the top PR firm in the country and embarked on a campaign to get the laws in California changed to allow him to “open shop” there.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Only the FCC required media to run “counter” opinions on anything regarding legislation. No one wanted to go up against Joe because they were scared to death of him. This is a man who had shot down a famous boxer in cold blood with a cop for a witness and didn't spend one day in jail. So I stepped up and was the only person who would go “toe to toe” with him in the media all that year.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><b>He lost.</b></u><b> </b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>That's the power of “truth” in the media's eye.</b> (Which by the way is why Dennis Hof won't share a stage with me today in my opinion.) So I've witnessed this first hand back then and I'm witnessing it now in the negative. I say that because in the last couple of years, I have documented the “life cycle” of “fake media” which has been created by people with money that has affected everything from legislation that's on the books now, to the outcome of lawsuits, to even now as I said the death of a man who I think needs to be investigated further than the trial he got in the “bought and paid for” media.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Why do I care about Neal Falls? I don't. But because of him being falsely attributed to the deaths of some female prostitutes in this country I am because it's allowing their REAL murderers to keep getting off scott free for one thing. For another, the whole story around him has created a completely false idea that if you're a sex worker and you shoot a “john” in self-defense that you're going to get the same “heroes welcome” as “Heather” did and sadly in reality that's just not the case. <i><b>As someone who has been a paralegal also for 30 years now I can assure you that is NOT how real hookers are greeted by cops when they arrive to a scene to find a dead “john”. </b></i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We have a real problem with the police and racism in this country also. Yet since all of this “fake media” has been being produced by the religious right in this country it has been a smoke screen for creating more racism in the police academies, the courtrooms, and more importantly it's created a new form of modern “lynching” of the African American male and minorities. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">All of which is resulting not only in more police murders of African American men we haven't seen since the 1980's and this kind of thing was being done back then also, but also that of sexual abuse of women within jails/prisons, and our legal system, which has just skyrocketed in recent years, and is also serving to take focus off the real criminals who are literally being offered immunity by our government when caught sex trafficking red handed as is the case with Joohoon David Lee.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So yes I can contact the FCC and bombard them with 1000 individual complaints against completely fabricated stories such as the ones I've seen in the Review Journal, Buzzfeed, the Daily Dot, Daily Beast, CNN, Fox, CBS, etc., who seem to run most of these fabricated stories, or the “fake” reality shows I've uncovered more than once now on Bravo, A&amp;E and Discover (who by the way I can now document have a financial interest in such faked stories), but more frighteningly is the way it's spread now into so called “public” broadcasting such as the fabrication I heard in April on Nevada Public Radio involving “Game Over”. A supposedly “survivor led” program out of Eureka, California who was allowed to bring completely fabricated racism inspiring sex trafficking training into a cadet academy there from what I heard broadcast. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Or I can start opening up a dialogue with your companies as to what I've seen being done with these “fabrications”. Such as the awards of millions of dollars in grant money to imaginary programs that don't exist in reality, conning people out of money through fake fund raisers, the deception of judges in courtrooms unlike anything in history (such as the largest sex trafficking case in our history being a complete fabrication), laws being passed into legislation based upon completely fabricated campaigns to actually support sex traffickers' operations on the same level as when Pablo Escobar was writing laws on extradition while claiming to be “legitimate business man”, and again the fact that we still are offering immunity to sex traffickers caught red handed such as we did with Joohoon David Lee. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">All while I can't get anyone in the media to even talk about these things because they're too busy blowing up the fake stories bought and paid for by these people I can show have financial interests in such matters, or who are being supported entirely by the involved parties money in the first place. Why? Because I've also watched as these “fabricated heroes” have been now testifying in front of Congress, the Ethics Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and other such people who are deciding upon the laws and budgets of this country. In other words, it's now affecting history. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I believe these people have also created a “monopoly” with respect to sex trafficking that protects themselves and I have enough documentation now to prove it. No different by the way than when the NFL was exposed as controlling the medical community to cover their own ass with respect to liability lawsuits you can reference more about in the film “Concussion”. Only I don't have a Dr. Omalu with the highest of credentials to stand up for our truth – all we have is “survivors”. Voices that are being completely drowned out of all of the discussions about them by the very financial interests exploiting them, as well as their “consumers” who own these media outlets in most cases these days. Steve Sassa was one prime example in control of Hearst Media for some years, now in control over Telemundo.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">What's going on now is like handing over control of the media to Al Capone during Prohibition or to Hitler during WWII. You think I'm wrong? <b>Let's compare numbers of Jews, and others, murdered by the Nazi's and sex trafficking victims, as well as prostitutes, than shall we?</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">That's where we are right now with this. Meaning again I can bombard you with 1000's of individual complaints – or we can open up a dialogue about this issue. Your call. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">You can reach at the above-referenced contact information. Thank you for your attention to these issues.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Sincerely,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Jody Williams</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-25352731741070517232017-05-13T18:05:00.000-07:002017-05-13T18:18:22.166-07:00NEAL FALLS WAS MURDERED<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This whole story was a complete fabrication about "Heather" and how Neal died. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I operate the hotline at www.sexworkersanonymous.com When I got a call telling me the "real" story, I had an obligation to take this information to the police. Strange they didn't want to hear any "additional" information on a case where someone was shot dead. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As more and more calls came into the hotline giving me information this whole thing was being fabricated, (which by the way substantiates why these people have been trying to stamp out our hotline to control the flow of information they don't want to get out), I started looking into it more myself. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don't believe me at all. Go look at the facts yourself. The whole thing doesn't add up. When I spoke to other police officers underneath the "men in charge" they admitted there was not only not one single shred of physical evidence tying Neal Falls to any of these murders, but that the "tools" in his car had been unused, and had not one molecule of evidence on them tying them to one single case of a hooker murdered.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was not one single "souvenir" from any victim in his car or belongings. Please tell me one serial killer throughout history who has no history of violence, abusing animals, starting fires, and where other prostitutes spoke out such as the Craigslist Killer even. </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">All there is is everyone's "word". Including that "Heather" is even a hooker. Only where is she now? Our hotline started getting calls to that effect and now it's like she's completely evaporated. When I got calls from people who knew the "real Heather" concerned something bad had happened to her, I went to see she was alive and well only to find myself being threatened repeatedly with violence and worse I documented. </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only real life hookers don't "evaporate". I'm sorry but they are very easy to find in the real world. That's why so many moms have come to me over the years to get help finding their daughters the police, FBI and CIA don't want them to find. </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had gone to the police with REAL evidence into Jessie Foster's case about a man who was terrorizing prostitutes in Vegas I was having to help escape the country to get away from him. I was literally threatened by an FBI agent if I didn't "drop this and back off". </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I wouldn't shut up about Peter Todd this story breaks with all the related media hoopla trying to shout loud enough that Neal Fall killed her and the others to make people think the killer was found and case shut - how convenient to blame a man who was a loner the police knew was a loner because of his past traffic tickets. Didn't we see the same exact thing done to blame Oswald? I mean are these guys really still using the same handbook from the 1960's?</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Those traffic tickets painted the image of a loser who no one would defend or miss easily blamed. Just as they targeted Oswald because they knew his mother wouldn't defend him, nor would anyone else. </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only I care when REAL HOOKER KILLERS ARE STILL WALKING AROUND. I've not only never seen a killer act like this - there's not ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE against Neal. Something a REAL reporter by the way would notice. Not something done by people like Mary Emily O'Hara who wouldn't print the truth on a dare. Nope she's a great writer to bring in when you want to create a "fake hero" in your "fake news" by the way like this story is <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/irl/serial-killer-attack-killed-virginia/">https://www.dailydot.com/irl/serial-killer-attack-killed-virginia/</a></span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh so a "cold story" comes into town filmed by the same channels I've caught filming four other "fake reality" shows and they supposedly "proved" Neal did this? Only note not one of these "investigators" talked to me here in ground zero of Vegas about the evidence or witnesses we have, nor did they talk to private investigator on Jessie's case who knew who killed her but who was also threatened by the police. Who Metro smeared BOTH him and I to Glendene, Jessie's mom, when we BOTH tried to tell her the truth about her daughter's death. Only she didn't want to hear it because then she's have to deal with her fund raising addiction and her Munchausen's' that's getting it's kick by crying to the media every chance she gets while pleading for more money and sympathy. </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I had first tried to talk to Glendene about Jessie's case as did the PI and Metro bought her off with a few TV appearances and fund raisers so a crying mother of one of us on TV means nothing. My mom would have sold me out for a couple of bucks and some air time to have everyone give her some attention too over my dead body also so no surprise there. So would the moms of every members of Sex Workers Anonymous that's called us for 30 years. Again, if we had "great model" moms who gave one shit about us most wouldn't have wound up out there in the first place - so let's listen to them about us. Yeah right.</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">THIS whole story is a beautiful example of what "fake news" is. Not what the media is claiming it is to try and censor Google searches. Who make sure the top stories on this are that it's real, while ones questioning it are buried. And when they can't stop people from listening to people like me because we actually make sense - let's brand them "fake news" and bury them on Google on page 20.</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">But we already know that Google is involved with these people also. It's why I use <a href="http://www.startpage.com/" target="_blank">www.startpage.com </a>now for my searches when I want the truth. No I'm not an affiliate or owner or anything - I just value finding the truth on my subjects when I'm doing research.</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS - go to twitter and type in a search for "Mary Emily O"Hara". Seems she's disappeared off social media - interesting thing for a reporter to do - and this hash tag was by her name. <a href="https://twitter.com/iscintech">https://twitter.com/iscintech</a> Strange.</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course not surprised their twitter feed is following Stanford nor bashing Trump. What a surprise. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: &quot;helvetica&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-74613168256982845562017-05-09T11:34:00.002-07:002017-05-09T11:34:56.550-07:00WHAT'S HAPPENED TO PBS AND NPR?I have been seeing some disturbing things on PBS and hearing even more on NPR for a while now. &nbsp;Remember, I was born in 1960. <br /><br />So I remember what these channels were like BEFORE they were allowed to take corporate money. &nbsp;I also remember what they were like BEFORE the Telecommunications Act of 1995 allowed the corporations to take over the mainstream press by being able to own more than one station/outlet at a time than they were before.<br /><br />I also remember when I didn't have one single problem getting onto a new show, documentary, or talk show. &nbsp;<i>Now I have reporters telling me they were fired within days of even speaking to me on the phone! &nbsp;</i><br /><br />But the gauntlett was thrown down as far as I was concerned when "A Path Appears" with Nicholas Kristof about sex trafficking aired on PBS. &nbsp;I hadn't been asked for one sound bite. &nbsp;To me it was like a show about alcoholism without one mention of Bill Wilson or AA. <br /><br />I had one of my "did I drop acid?" moments with that one. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;Because in the 1970's and 1980's Covenant House, who was featured in this show, &nbsp;did not ACCEPT PROSTITUTES, i.e, "sex trafficking victims" back then at all. <br /><br />The very reason they DID NOT was one of the reasons why Lois Lee had to form Children of the Night in 1979. &nbsp;It's why she had to form a dedicated hotline - because the traditional "runaway" networks wouldn't lift a finger to help someone they felt was a prostitute. <br /><br />Why? &nbsp;If they did put a male or female prostitute in one of their shelters for one thing - the staff would hit on them sexually, the other clients would hit on them sexually or attack them as "whores" and "faggots", or rape them when the staff wasn't around, or the staff was raping them (I don't mean everyone at Covenant - I mean at teen shelters in general), or when the pimps would come to retrieve them the staff would just stand back and let them. <br /><br />But yet this show was proudly broadcasting Covenant House as taking in "sex trafficking victims" while I didn't hear a PEEP out of the show about Children of the Night. &nbsp;NOT A PEEP!!!<br /><br />Okay maybe it was just an oversight right? <br /><br />So I started watching more and more shows about the subject &nbsp;on PBS and NPR and NOT ONE was I seeing or hearing &nbsp;(1) anything to do with American sex trafficking, or (2) I was seeing a parade of WHITE PEOPLE going into other indigenous or third world countries CONFUSING POVERTY with "sex trafficking". <br /><br />For example. I saw one whole show on PBS talking about how after a hurricane hit the Philippines and then the government wasn't able to provide jobs or housing for everyone - so some women were forced into sex work in order to be able to eat and put a roof over their heads. <br /><br />THAT'S what I saw - I saw outreach workers going out to talk to prostitutes who were hooking to EAT. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/in-the-philippines-sex-trafficking-of-young-girls-moves-online/">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/in-the-philippines-sex-trafficking-of-young-girls-moves-online</a>&nbsp;on this PBS show. <br /><br />Only they weren't called "sex workers" who were sometimes "trafficking victims" or "vulnerable to sex trafficking" - no they were instead all across the board referred to as "sex trafficking victims". <br /><br />Now instead of the discussion, or focus, on this piece being about the lack of government response to those hurricane victims, OR about how as sex workers they needed to have equal protection by the police FROM traffickers, pimps, rapists, etc., who would prey upon them because prostitution is illegal over there as it is here - no - the focus on this was calling those women across the board "sex trafficking victims". &nbsp;I'm sorry but a woman forced to do sex work to eat or feed her baby is NOT a "sex trafficking victim". <br /><br />Now I know the religious right people like to SANITIZE US BY CALLING US THAT - BUT IT'S NOT THE TRUTH.<br /><br />I mean when are we going to start calling Mary Magdalene a "sex trafficking victim" by this logic?<br /><br />Let me put this in another term so maybe you can understand me better - back before truckers had unions truckers were taken advantage of greatly by employers. &nbsp;They had no benefits. &nbsp;They weren't allowed to take sleep or rest breaks. &nbsp;They had no job security. &nbsp;They were treated pretty much like scum. &nbsp;The unions came in to make sure they were treated fairly and properly if you remember. <br /><br />Now how do you think things would have gone down in this country if all of those truckers were classified in the media instead &nbsp;of "exploited truckers" as "human trafficking victims forced to drive trucks"? <br /><br /><b>THAT'S how I felt about that show on PBS. &nbsp;</b><br /><br />You don't like unions right? &nbsp;Okay how about the plight of illegal aliens trying to find work in this country as maids, cooks, farmers, etc., who are constantly being abused because they don't have a visa or papers? &nbsp;How because they don't have papers they are vulnerable to things like rape, violence, employment abuse, being ripped off by landlords and employers, etc. <br /><br />Now what if their plight was thrown in with that of those who are forced to do labor in this country such as the human trafficking victims by the media - those who are forced by gun or restriction or threats into providing labor against their will with no distinction about those who are being forced entirely by say threats against harming their family vs. those who are being exploited because they're here illegally because they can't get papers?<br /><b><br /></b><b>Are you really going to tell me there's no a difference between the two?</b> &nbsp;Do they over lap? &nbsp;Sure. <br />But are they the same? <br /><br />NO.<br /><br />What if, just imagine here for a moment with me, what if the very people who were exploiting these communities were put in charge of the media reporting their plight to the public? <br /><br />Do you think they'd tell you the truth about their involvement? <br /><br />I want you to take a look at the list of supporters for PBS and NRP recently here on this link&nbsp;<a href="http://ross-mcconnel-shadow.tripod.com/2014_NPR_SUPPORTERS.htm" target="_blank">http://ross-mcconnel-shadow.tripod.com/2014_NPR_SUPPORTERS.htm</a><br /><a href="http://ross-mcconnel-shadow.tripod.com/2014_NPR_SUPPORTERS.htm" target="_blank"><br /></a>I am a survivor of REAL sex trafficking. <br /><br />I didn't say this to sell a book.<br /><br />I didn't say this to get a visa.<br /><br />I didn't say this because I have a fund raiser or grant application coming up.<br /><br />I don't have a "gofundme" going.<br /><br />I'm not asking for your donations.<br /><br />I'm not trying to get a law passed.<br /><br />I'm not saying because I have a cop or prosecutor threatening me with jail if I don't make this claim.<br /><br />I AM A REAL SURVIVOR AND WITNESS TO REAL AMERICAN SEX TRAFFICKING.<br /><b><br /></b><b>AND I'M BEING ROBBED OF MY VOICE BY THIS CORPORATE TAKE OVER OF THE MEDIA INCLUDING SO CALLED "PUBLIC" BROADCASTING. &nbsp;</b><br /><br />First I had public service announcements taken away when the Telecommunications Act of 1995 was passed. &nbsp; I also had my voice taken away as a "counter" opinion to those who wanted to push legalization AND criminalization of prostitution with that Act. &nbsp; I've had my voice taken away by the men in power who are the "johns" who buy me and the "traffickers" who sell me! &nbsp; I do not know of one single major media or news outlet run by either/or an ex-sex worker or a sex trafficking survivor - but I sure as hell can tell you who is that's involved in trafficking and buying and selling us!<br /><br />By the year 2000 - because of money interests I had my voice completely taken away from anything to do with mainstream media.<br /><br />And now it's been removed from public broadcasting. <br /><br />The only place left is right here on the internet and now Google is trying to bury me with their new "protections against fake news" they're using as their smoke screen for BURYING what they don't want you to see.<br /><br />I can prove it. &nbsp;Sharnel Silvey created the first ever alternative sentencing program for prostitutes, i.e., sex trafficking victims, in northern Nevada. &nbsp;Go and look up her name on Google and see if you can find any word about her years of work creating that program for the first time in Nevada's history.<br /><br />&nbsp;The plan was to operate it for two years, and then I was going to model it for southern Nevada, and we were then going to have one running on one end of Nevada and the other on the other end and that way we'd cover all of Nevada. <br /><br />Only what do you see instead about Sharnel? &nbsp;Anyone who has seen the film "Truth" or "Cointelpro 101" knows that people who are activists get FRAMED. &nbsp;Sure you're going to read about the arrest . . . . BUT WHERE IS THE NEWS ABOUT HER WORK WITH PROSTITUTES?<br /><br />Right where our voices went - down the crapper. &nbsp;We're back to no one wanting to hear a damn thing we have to say.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-42404155093490812812017-05-07T16:45:00.000-07:002017-05-07T16:45:32.181-07:00WHAT IS LINKEDIN DOING WITH YOUR PERSONAL DATA & CONTACTS?<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Re:</span><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Demand Letter and Notification in Violation of Laws Against “Restraint of Trade”</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Sirs:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m writing you as service of a “demand letter” if you will.&nbsp; I say that because business and politics have become such so that if one doesn’t have a “Linkedin profile” it’s almost as if that person doesn’t exist.&nbsp; The world has reached a point where even on a simple job interview I’m now being told if I don’t have a “Linkedin profile” that I won’t even be considered for the job.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve seen this kind of “list” using before actually.&nbsp; Years ago when the Catholic Bishops were trying to control every sex trafficking resource in this country, people in the field were told they “could not do business with anyone who was not in the Freedom Registry”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trying to ascertain what the “Freedom Registry” was, I found out it was a list of companies and professionals who were “anti-abortion” in their views and business practices.&nbsp; When the ACLU won the lawsuit against the Catholic Bishops removing their financial control over these people, and of course once light was shed upon this practice, the whole “Freedom Registry” became moot.&nbsp; It was never “openly” discussed what this list was – but this was what “insiders” told me was the reason for this when I was trying to find out why I was being blacklisted from it then.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Lately, I’ve found the same thing has been happening with respect to a “Linkedin profile”.&nbsp; I operate Sex Workers Anonymous, and their hotline, as I have since 1987.&nbsp; It was our work, our group, and our people who sparked the modern day sex trafficking revolution and thus achieving federal recognition of this fact with the passing of the Trafficking Act of 2000.&nbsp; This is a “volunteer” position I hold as I receive no salary, grants, income, etc.&nbsp; Meaning I also have to work a job in order to pay my rent.&nbsp; Work I’m finding a much harder time getting lately because of not having a Linkedin profile page more and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because of who I am, and the powerful people who oppose our work, I’ve found I’ve had to work “freelance” to support myself since 1988 after going “toe to toe” with fighting the expansion of legal brothels into California.&nbsp; We won that fight, but I soon found the only way I was able to obtain work past that point was of a “freelance” nature.&nbsp; There was no point in getting hired anyway at a “regular” job as my employers would soon get a “visit” from someone who would then threaten them if I wasn’t fired.&nbsp; So freelance became the way I’ve had to support not just myself, but also our SWA operations that I pay for out of my own earnings also being as those who come to us for help never have any money of their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Work that has become increasingly difficult for me to obtain without having a “Linkedin” profile any longer.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because your company turned around and denied me service a few years ago claiming I had “violated your terms of service”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well I hadn’t - so I demanded to know WHAT “terms of service” had&nbsp; I violated in response to that news.&nbsp; To which your company then told me basically “for me to know and you to find out”.&nbsp; Meaning you just had terminated my service and were refusing to give me any solid grounds for that denial because you know, and I know, I had not violated any of your “terms of service”.&nbsp; Which I find especially laughable seeing as I see the open engagement of sex workers and porn stars on your site freely operating – so I found you denying my service quite interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I went about setting up a page for my personal use to find work.&nbsp; I was denied service after three days for again supposedly “terms of service violation”.&nbsp; When all I’d done at that point was set up a profile – I found that an interesting claim and again asked you “what terms of service did I violate”?&nbsp; To which you also refused to respond.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I then set about opening up new pages using different emails and different credit cards – but you clearly had targeted my IP address by this point in time.&nbsp; No matter what name I used, what email account or what bank card I used – <i>your company was now refusing to even allow me to open even a free account to even VIEW profiles on your site by this time.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Going to a coffee shop so I would have another IP address, I found I was able to then view your profile using a free account.&nbsp; However, when I tried to sign up again, this time your company insisted they would “only do so if I showed you a drivers license”.&nbsp; Now you may not know this, but I have documented now through police reports more than one death threat, and even a bomb threat, against my life because of my work.&nbsp; I have reasons why I’m careful about things like my home address, my drivers license, my photos of myself, etc.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This isn’t just for my work either.&nbsp; My grandmother was murdered when I was only 11 years old.&nbsp; The man who murdered her has sworn to kill me also.&nbsp; Over the years, I’ve documented this man trying to find out where I live using my school records, drivers license information, credit reports, and other methods he’s used to try and find out where I live for who knows what purpose since he was released after only a five year prison term for that murder.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">California is very aware of the need for some womens’ privacy when it comes to their personal information, now allowing that one can obtain a license now using a postal service rather than their home in order to protect their safety.&nbsp; Meaning I just don’t hand out my drivers license information to anyone these days that asks for it and that’s my right to do so to protect myself.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I run an “anonymous” program.&nbsp; As such, our members should not have to also show a “drivers license” in order to have a Linkedin profile either.&nbsp; Meaning I object greatly to the idea that I would have to show you my personal drivers license, along with also showing you my photo and home address on that document, in order to get a profile on your site.&nbsp; Which you’ve also provided me with no guarantee that even if I show you this document will you then grant me a profile either.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But the point remains that it now has become something I can document has been hindering my work with SWA, my outreach work for victims, as well as even my ability to find simple work these days doing freelance paralegal work.&nbsp; There are even now politicians I can’t reach except through a Linkedin contact – <i>all being blocked now because your site won’t allow me to have even a simple profile.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have now tried five different times to simply open an account through your site, only to be denied access for “terms of service” when I haven’t even finished opening the account yet.&nbsp; In other words, it’s no different than me being allowed a seat on the bus or a table in a diner if this were the 1950’s south.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I have a problem with that</span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.&nbsp; Because I can now document more than one job that has told me they won’t even look at my resume without a Linkedin profile.&nbsp; I’ve been told I have been refused even communications with some law enforcement agencies and politicians “except” through Linkedin.&nbsp; So what’s happening here now is that I am now suffering from “economic interference” by your company and I don’t know why because you won’t give me an answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If I was doing something “wrong” I would understand your denial.&nbsp; But even just opening up an account, you’ve been blocking me from doing so.&nbsp; You also know you’re wrong and that’s why you’ve refused to give me an answer as to what I supposedly “violated” when you have cut me off.&nbsp; Considering the abuses I’ve seen your company is doing with personal information, I’m also not about to turn you over my drivers license either in order to get service.&nbsp; Service which you might then yank again at will for no valid reason even after I provide you with this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, this is a formal demand letter</span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.&nbsp; I want to be able to set up a page for my work with Sex Workers Anonymous; a page for SWAN, the program that works with family members’ Sexual Exploitation Anonymous, that works with juvenile victims of sex trafficking; another page for me as an author of the literature for these programs; a personal page for myself; and a page for my services doing freelance consultation and paralegal work to pay the bills around here.&nbsp; The use of “multiple pages” does not mean I’m committing “fraud<i>”.&nbsp; It means I’m a multi-talented person who works for a living and also does volunteer work.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This also applies to our members.&nbsp; I’ve had more than one person on our board try and open an account for SWA – only to also be denied for no valid reason from even opening a page for SWA.&nbsp; You’ve also asked them for a drivers license in order to open them a page.&nbsp; After talking to other members of your site, you haven’t required a drivers license from them to have an account.&nbsp; Once I saw this article, <a href="http://recruitingdaily.com/linkedin-hiringsolved-care-even-youre-recruiting/">http://recruitingdaily.com/linkedin-hiringsolved-care-even-youre-recruiting/</a>I see lots of people question what you’re doing with “personal data” also.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So please accept this letter as formal demand for me to be allowed to have a Linkedin profile set up for my professional, and personal use, within five days of receipt of this letter.&nbsp; If I’m not allowed to set up these pages, and use your service like any other customer, then I will be filing a lawsuit for “restriction of trade” against your company.&nbsp; As a paralegal for 30 years, please know I do not need an attorney to litigate my personal legal matters.&nbsp; Since I write the papers most of the attorney’s use in court, I have no problem defending myself endlessly on the issue “in pro per”.&nbsp; Since I’ve actually helped others win many a case against top lawyers using my legal skills – I’m not afraid of litigating this matter myself personally should I have to.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Please be advised in <i>Mitchel v Reynolds</i>(1711) Lord Smith LC said,[1]<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“it is the privilege of a trader in a free country, in all matters not contrary to law, to regulate his own mode of carrying it on according to his own discretion and choice. If the law has regulated or restrained his mode of doing this, the law must be obeyed. But no power short of the general law ought to restrain his free discretion.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Meaning I have grounds upon which to sue you for “restriction of trade” should you keep denying myself and SWA member profiles.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This letter will appear on my blog also until I’m answered with the response I’m allowed to open a page for my work and myself, as well as our members being allowed to identify as such also without their accounts being shut down as you’ve done to them.&nbsp; Once our pages are allowed up, then I’ll take this down off our social media.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you have any questions or comments about this, please contact me at the above contact information.&nbsp; Thank you for your attention to this matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jody Williams<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-36530232048414590832017-04-24T00:16:00.001-07:002017-04-24T00:33:44.137-07:00DANGERS OF SWOP FUND RAISERS<span style="font-size: large;">One of the reasons why it was not such a good idea that "non-sex workers" take over SWOP, or Sex Workers Outreach Project, as they have since Robin died is because they clearly have no idea how our world works in reality. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">As a result, they're going to get a lot of people hurt. &nbsp;Either that, or they are aware and this is some kind of deliberate set-up. &nbsp;I don't know because their "new management" won't even speak to me when I call and try to. &nbsp;Older members of SWOP who were chased out of SWOP after Robin died told me they were cautioned to "not to Jody". &nbsp;So I don't know what's up with them. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I'm referring to the practice of "fund raisers" to retain a private attorney for someone who has been arrested on a prostitution or madaming charge. &nbsp;Since SWOP doesn't want to seem to listen to my cautions against this practice - let me explain it to you here. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">In my day, in the 1980's, if you were an attorney who tried to represent anyone on such a charge, or a drug charge - you wound up being threatened by the police to stop. &nbsp;If those threats didn't work, then they'd start the harassment and raids. &nbsp;If that didn't work, then the Bar would come in auditing your firm. &nbsp;If that didn't get you to stop, or get you disbarred, then the prosecutor would come at you demanding to know the source of all of your money. &nbsp;Especially where the money came from to defend the sex worker, or criminal they didn't want defended. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If your retainer for these clients came from drug or prostitution money, they would confiscate the money and prosecute the attorney accordingly for receipt of the money, including money laundering charges. &nbsp; If this type of harassment didn't stop the attorney from representing you, and they couldn't get the attorney disbarred - then they'd offer some kind of "sweet deal" to sell your case down the river. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Many attorneys got disbarred - look at Jeane Palfrey's attorney, Montgomery Sibley for one example. &nbsp;I can name you countless others who were disbarred while trying to defend one of us.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">All of this was one of the reasons why we originally called our 12 step program "Prostitutes Anonymous". &nbsp;Using laws grandfathered in by Alcoholics Anonymous, if arrested for prostitution, or pimping, or madaming - all one had to do was to ask the court to send them to a meeting of ours as an "alternative to incarceration". &nbsp;Even if there was a mandatory jail sentence - the court had to honor this request as 12 step programs can be substituted in for jail or prison. &nbsp;NOT a "meeting" but a "program". &nbsp;Yes there is a difference. &nbsp;If the court objected, I could threaten them with a discrimination lawsuit and complaint. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Why? &nbsp;If an alcoholic is allowed to get treatment instead of jail as is an addict - why can't we? &nbsp;Besides, usually when you're arrested the cops take every penny you got and if you do have money left the prosecutor starts demanding to know "it's source" which can just get you into more trouble. &nbsp;By us helping the sex workers without being paid - we bypass all of this.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">This system allowed many of us to avoid jail while not having to deal with these problems with attorney's.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Does that mean you can't get an attorney? &nbsp;SWA has a list of attorney's who are more than willing to help our members, but who aren't willing to be labeled as a "hooker attorney" by being named on the court records, and also possibly in the press and on the internet. &nbsp;What they do is "advise anonymously" through a public defender who is not going to get themselves jacked up in the same manner as a private attorney would helping one of us. &nbsp;Or they can advise in other non-direct ways how to handle this case if there needs to be. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">After Robin died, I started seeing this practice of "fund raisers" to get private attorney's for some of us and I was mortified. &nbsp;Let me explain why - it's a common practice if a prostitute is arrested that the cops will arrest whoever bails her out, then demand to know the source of this money. &nbsp;That's why I personally used to have an arrangement with a good bail bondsman who wouldn't have this problem. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, if you give money to help a sex worker through bail or an attorney's retainer you may be targeted by law enforcement for investigation. &nbsp;Again, talk to Montgomery Sibley who can let you know the nightmare he went through trying to defend Jeane Palfrey. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">These SWOP fund raisers are done through a 501c3 nonprofit. &nbsp;Meaning that they will identify donors to their fund raisers to the IRS. &nbsp;The sites they use to collect the donations are not safe guarded in any way for confidentiality. &nbsp;Meaning if the IRS or law enforcement goes to these sites with a warrant, even a letter, demanding to know the names, bank information, etc., of the donors - they will give it to them. &nbsp;They can also match it to the tax records that SWOP has admitted they file with IRS on "anyone they give a grant to". &nbsp;Meaning they also file with the IRS, and in public record, the legal information on who they're giving the fund raiser to also. &nbsp;Very cheap way to find out personal bank information on someone if you ask me. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Are we different? &nbsp;Hell yeah. &nbsp;The PayPal account for www.sexworkersanonymous.com is my personal bank information. &nbsp;I am an ordained minister. &nbsp;My private taxes are not published as part of public record like 501c3 tax records are. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">As a 12 step program we are afforded the same confidentiality rights as an attorney, priest, or doctor being because of laws grandfathered in by AA who allowed that when a man confessed to murder in an AA meeting that speech was "privileged". &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Between the layer of 12 step confidentiality laws, my right to privacy as a private person, and the fact I have the double protection of being an ordained minister - anyone who buys a book or donates a dollar to SWA is guaranteed complete confidentiality. &nbsp;Their records are not published with the IRS or anyone for that matter. &nbsp;I've had warrants and subpoenas come to me over the years and I've refused them. &nbsp;<b>In other words, no one knows the banking information and identity of people who either buy products from us or who donate to us. &nbsp;</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Now do you think this doesn't happen to attorney's any longer who defend people the cops don't want defended? &nbsp;Think again. &nbsp;Look up Mitchell Stein who got 17 years in prison when not one person had filed a complaint against him. &nbsp;He was completely railroaded by the Attorney General's office for defending people who had been illegally foreclosed upon in the 2008 economy crash.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Here's a recent case in point -&nbsp;<a href="http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pappas-to-ocrowley.pdf">http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pappas-to-ocrowley.pdf</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Note from this article how the law firm defending this dispensary&nbsp;was being harassed by law enforcement and prosecutor's office.</b> &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If the money from these fund raisers SWOP is holding are going to private attorney's to help individual sex workers - I not only can guarantee there's problems - I've heard of problems. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">For one, I've heard from sex workers the attorney's were paid for by SWOP, and therefore a "third party". &nbsp;Meaning their client is SWOP and NOT the individual sex worker. &nbsp;What does that mean?</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">It means the only person they're concerned with please is their CLIENT WHO PAYS THEM - not who they're representing in court. &nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Why don't you read up on what Teofil's attorney did to him who wasn't paid for by him to answer the &nbsp;question "what harm could that do?" &nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.queerty.com/convicted-sean-cody-extortionist-jarec-wentworth-speaks-out-from-prison-alleges-massive-conspiracy-20160415">https://www.queerty.com/convicted-sean-cody-extortionist-jarec-wentworth-speaks-out-from-prison-alleges-massive-conspiracy-20160415</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.razoo.com/404?url=%2Fstory%2FSwopusa&amp;reason=not_published">https://www.razoo.com/404?url=%2Fstory%2FSwopusa&amp;reason=not_published</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-59991796742999755682017-04-21T23:09:00.000-07:002017-04-21T23:09:19.628-07:00REPLY TO DAWN WORSWICK'S LETTER TO TRUMP<a href="https://fightcorruptedfamilycourtsandcps.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/stop-allowing-criminals-in-child-protective-services-to-abuse-their-power-the-children-and-the-people/#comment-1051">https://fightcorruptedfamilycourtsandcps.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/stop-allowing-criminals-in-child-protective-services-to-abuse-their-power-the-children-and-the-people/#comment-1051</a><br /><br />I can't agree enough with this letter Dawn. &nbsp;Thank you for writing it. &nbsp;Back in the 1980's, I was seeing women being rounded up like cattle, stuck into buses, and then treated like they were the "criminals". &nbsp;In reality, these were women who had been kidnapped, sold, and otherwise forced into sex work in one form or another. &nbsp;Whether it was in a strip club, massage parlor, or illegal brothel, they were still being forced as how the Margo Compton case illustrated. <br /><br />The police were to be as feared as the traffickers and pimps. &nbsp;Victims were threatened with even more harm to their families if they were arrested and spoke to the police about what was happening to them. &nbsp;If they were to ACT like they were not there voluntarily - the very lives of their children and family members were threatened. &nbsp;Thus the image of the "happy hooker" was common in the 1980's. <br /><br />I point to the case of Linda Lovelace. &nbsp;This was a woman being promoted in the media as "wanting to be a prostitute" while in reality she was being beaten, raped, forced, and her family threatened if she didn't "act" as if she wanted to be there. &nbsp;When she came forward with the truth - no one believed her. Back then for someone to be speaking about "force", was received the same as if someone had said they were "being abducted by aliens". <br /><br />The reason was also because there were no laws on the books to allow these to be treated as "victims" instead of criminals because prostitution is illegal. &nbsp;Because there were literally no laws against Linda having been forced at gunpoint to film "Deep Throat" - the best the law could do was charge everyone on the film but her with "obscenity". <br /><br />Well of course that didn't work because society didn't understand what was going on. &nbsp;They couldn't relate how "obscenity" had anything to do with the film. &nbsp;REalize we didn't even have a WORD for this back then. &nbsp;As I was growing up then, the closest words I heard was that of "white slavery" for those sold into the sex trade and taken to another country, and those "pimped" as somewhat of what Linda went through. &nbsp;Yes Linda was pimped by her husband, but he was part of a larger criminal operation for which the term "sex trafficking" hadn't been invented yet.<br /><br />All I knew was we had nowhere to go. &nbsp;Victims were hunted by cops and then treated like criminals so going to the police was not an option. &nbsp;The fear of HIV/AIDS had made it so shelters and treatment centers were refusing help to anyone they suspected "was a prostitute". &nbsp;I had tried taking some of these victims into my home for protection, only to wind up with people almost getting shot who were innocent bystanders and neighbors. &nbsp;I couldn't keep risking my neighbors getting shot over this, so I took an old warehouse I had once used as an illegal brothel, and turned it into what I later learned was the first "safe house" for adults in this country. &nbsp;To meet the demand, one other person had started a safe house for juveniles in 1979 and that was Children of the Night. &nbsp;Between us, we had help available for juveniles and adults. <br /><br />While pimps generally acted alone, or within their network, "traffickers" however had the police on their payroll. &nbsp;Police who soon sent me a victim to help who I did. &nbsp;I put her in the warehouse to heal after her pimp had broken her arm, nose and blacked both eyes. &nbsp;Next thing I know she's accusing me of "pimping" and I'm being carted off to jail. &nbsp;I had done nothing illegal, so the cops threatened to charge my mother with pimping if I didn't take a plea bargain. &nbsp;I refused so they threatened my grandmother who was in her 70's at the time and I didn't think could survive an arrest in LA jails - so I caved. <br /><br />The DA asked me to "talk" about what I knew and offered to drop the case. &nbsp;Only "what I knew" was what I'd seen - which was the trafficking went up to our own government during Iran Contra. &nbsp;I knew the minute I opened my mouth about our CIA involved in the sale of women for oil and drug deals that I'd have an attorney down there screaming "national security" so fast my head would spin. &nbsp;In other words, I knew I would wind up like Jeane Palfrey did. &nbsp;In fact, I watched her case very carefully because she was in the same situation as I was when this happened. &nbsp;I kept my mouth shut. &nbsp;She however tried to talk. &nbsp;Then she was murdered before she could which I had feared would happen to me if I had tried. &nbsp;Sadly, Jeane proved to me years later I had made the right decision to just shut my mouth.<br /><br />I bided my time and sought out answers. &nbsp;I consulted with people like Gloria Allred and Edwin Meese, the CA Attorney General. &nbsp;Tom Bradley, Chief Gates and Sheriff Block also as they were seeing what was going on also - their hands tied too because we not only had no laws on the books, we had no public perception this was even real. &nbsp;That's why I talked about Linda - when she had tried to enlighten the public it was written off as just a "domestic abuse" type situation. &nbsp;It was just something people couldn't comprehend. <br /><br />It reminded me of the way the mafia had been. &nbsp;I was a teen at the time just when the mafia had gone from people laughing and saying it didn't exist to the time when it was accepted as "normal". &nbsp;I remembered how it all started with Joe Valachi stepping up to tell the truth about the mob. &nbsp;So in 1987, I set up an 800 hotline (not easy or cheap in 1987). &nbsp;I then started "tricking" my way onto TV. &nbsp;I say "trick" because there was no way the media would have put me on to tell the truth. &nbsp;I promised producers a "sexy madam story" from the "high tech madam" and then once the cameras were rolling I started telling the truth about what was going on in the sex industry. &nbsp;I figured once people heard what was happening - then they'd call for change. <br /><br />I knew I couldn't take one book or movie offer or I would be written off as "just trying to make a buck". &nbsp;Besides, they wouldn't tell the truth back then anyway. &nbsp;I had seen the fantasy films coming out about us like the Mayflower Madam, the Beverly Hills Madam, etc. &nbsp;I asked each of these women why they let such fantasy be filmed and not tell the truth. &nbsp;The answer was simple "to make some money" and they weren't interested in changing things like I was. &nbsp;I didn't think it was fair addicts got treatment while we got jail - so I created the 12 step program "Prostitutes Anonymous". &nbsp;This allowed us through laws grandfathered in by AA to go to the courts and ask they send them to us instead of jail. &nbsp;Remember, I had to do something within the current time and legal structure we had where we were ONLY viewed as criminals. <br /><br />It took 13 years of a lot of media work, public speaking, etc. until we saw the passing of the Trafficking Act of 2000. &nbsp;That was ground breaking in it allowed for the first time for us to be seen as, and treated like, victims. &nbsp;However, I had made a big mistake in my calculations. &nbsp;I had pushed for victim recognition BEFORE I had pushed for decriminalization. &nbsp;Something now being challenged with juvenile victims. &nbsp;The system went 'oh okay we have to treat them like victims now" while at the same time being called to arrest them as criminals. <br /><br />Suddenly I found myself COMPLETELY BOMBARDED AND SILENCED by special interests shutting me out of the very movement I had started. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;Because of what you're talking about Dawn. &nbsp;See when a juvenile is arrested as a prostitute it creates a record. &nbsp;The court then follows this case. &nbsp;The child has to report back to the judge physically and talk about what's going on. &nbsp;They get a probation officer overseeing their case. &nbsp;Which is necessary and I'll tell you why. &nbsp;When I was put on probation the court ordered me to school and a job. &nbsp;If I didn't go I would go to jail. &nbsp;That gave me the "excuse" to those around me "well I have to do these things" which allowed me to. &nbsp;Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to because of those around me then forcing me into prostitution. &nbsp;It was through school I met some veterans who showed me how to break free and recover - another reason why I started the program I did - to help others. <br /><br />HOWEVER, with the "no such thing" campaign which sprouted up sponsored by the McCain Institute, and the California Endowment - they were calling to NOT have juveniles arrested for prostitution. &nbsp;The problem with that is it SOUNDS good - but then what? &nbsp;By taking a child who is a juvenile prostitute, i.e., a trafficking victim - and putting them into the social services arena rather than the courts - you have no one to answer to. &nbsp;You have no way to follow up. &nbsp;You have over worked, inexperienced social workers who will do whatever they're told to do under fear of losing their job. &nbsp;These kids, especially those undocumented, are then completely lost in the system. &nbsp;I assure you those trafficking these kids are not going to then take them voluntarily to counseling and the other things necessary to extract them from the situation. Not without the court overseeing them as is done when they're being treated like criminals. &nbsp;Right now sadly the court treating them like a criminal is the ONLY means to try and extract this kid out of the situation. <br /><br />But now even that is failing. &nbsp;I'm hearing the courts are now cooperating with "looking the other way" when hearing about group homes where the kids are literally being pimped right out of the home. &nbsp;What's worse is the Polaris National Trafficking Hotline. &nbsp;They work WITH police who are part of this problem - and thus you aren't hearing out of them about the involvement of any authorities. &nbsp;It would be too much "bad press" for them and their grant seeking. &nbsp;They're not going to do things like try and get men like Joohoon David Lee shut down who was using his badge with Homeland Security, ICE and the &nbsp;trafficking task force to take government money to fly victims from countries like China and Korean into America. &nbsp;Then victims are transported in limos owned by Charles Horkey. &nbsp;Who has been charged with drugging customers, maxing out their credit cards, and then dumping them somewhere. &nbsp;While Joohoon David Lee was awaiting sentencing on a bribery charge - he was allowed to work for Charles Horkey's &nbsp;limo service! <br /><br />I realized I'd been suddenly silenced because Joohon couldn't be charged with sex trafficking even though he was caught red handed. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;Government officials have "immunity". &nbsp;Our legal system right now won't let you hold cops, prosecutor's, judges', etc., "accountable" when they break the law. &nbsp;Giving them immunity - just like Joohoon. &nbsp;The BEST the authorities who went after Joohoon could do was "bribery" for that reason. &nbsp;So while images of young black girls was being pushed in the media with the "no such thing" campaign, and fake victims were testifying at Congress ala "Catfish" style, the truth that this is not going to stop until we can create a system to hold those in government and law enforcement jobs accountable when they're caught involved in child sex trafficking. <br /><br />The NOISE about "we need to raise money to build a safe house" is being used to DROWN OUT THE TRUTH - that we aren't going to stop child sex trafficking until we restructure our legal system to hold those in authority accountable when they are caught doing criminal acts. &nbsp;Before starting this movement, I spent a lot of time studying the civil rights movement. &nbsp;Including a lot of the tactics the government used to try and stop Martin Luther King. &nbsp;Tactics I'm seeing being used today because that's what our government does. &nbsp;Just as they set up "fake" groups then, and also sent in "infiltrators" back then to disrupt effective groups, they're doing that in this movement today. <br /><br />Realizing people listened to me enough to get the Trafficking Act of 2000 passed - they've also created a "blacklist" around me using those "online trolls and influencers" which has finally also come out in the media as being real. &nbsp;I knew it when I was being followed, and attacked in teams, online for 8 hour shifts a day by the same people. &nbsp;I'm sorry but no real troll can spend that much time focusing on me unless it's their "day job". &nbsp;Interestingly, I've tracked many of these people back to Dynocorp - the same group spoken of in Kathryn Bolkovac movie "Whistle Blower". <br /><br />We have to restore this movement back to the voices of "real" victims. &nbsp;This woman Dawn is speaking about is sadly one of many you can trace who have spoken out about this, refused to be intimidated into shutting up, and then this happens to them as we also saw with Pizzagate. &nbsp;I myself have had three attempts on my life including having a mechanic luckily find a bomb had been placed in one of our outreach RV's. &nbsp;The two other attempts on my life were by uniformed police officers ala Sandra Bland style. &nbsp;There is a trail of bodies piling up of people trying to do something about this. &nbsp;Those who aren't killed are often having to live like I am right now - I'm in an RV I have to move every few weeks because of all of the attempts and threats on my life to silence me. While they silence me, they create "fake" media most of which comes out of Relativity Media, Disney, CNN, Fox, NBC, and sadly lately PBS.<br /><br />The man who founded Relativity Media bought a large portion of PBS recently. &nbsp;I started seeing all kinds of "fake" media coming out of them after this. &nbsp;I can assure you post-2002 most of the major media about sex trafficking like "Trafficking" with Liam Neeson is bogus. &nbsp;In fact, the guy whose life that was based on was arrested for fraud for that reason. &nbsp;It's illegal to lie about being a veteran to raise money and he was arrested - but yet the films continue to air. <br /><br />You'll notice in that film they make it appear it's a "foreign group of criminals" we're fighting when in reality it's people in our own law enforcement, courts, judges, CPS, foster care, and all of those systems that is where the seat of child sex trafficking is. &nbsp;Then when the victims become adults, they use prostitution being illegal to brand, silence and shame us about what happened to us as kids. &nbsp;Which means you also won't hear more stories about the truth of child sex trafficking once they become adults and legally can talk without permission of their guardians trying to silence them, until we decriminalize prostitution. <br /><br />What you think the child is going to tell the truth about what's happening when that's their home? &nbsp;When they are threatened with homelessness if they talk? &nbsp;No - you won't hear the truth about child sex trafficking until the victims are adults and can legally speak out. &nbsp;But we are now silencing them through continuing to have prostitution remain illegal. &nbsp;So too the INSISTENCE on only allowing voices of those who identify as "victims". <br /><br />I'm sorry but most TRUE victims of sex trafficking don't even know they're victims until sometimes years into recovery. &nbsp;I didn't. &nbsp;It's called "brainwashing". &nbsp;Which is why most TRUE victims don't identify as such. &nbsp;They need deprogramming, to detox, and then with recovery they can come to grips with how they were victimized and not "willing". &nbsp;Because they are taught to THINK they're "willing" so as to help the pimp avoid prosecution. &nbsp;Besides, it's how the brain copes with imprisonment. &nbsp;Go into any prison and you will see a "lifer" has decorated their cell. &nbsp;It doesn't mean they want to be there - it means they've "adapted". &nbsp;The same holds true for real victims of sex trafficking who are being completely silenced by those insisting on only hearing "victim" voices lately. <br /><br />That's because they're being used to raise money - not awareness of what change needs to come to stop this. &nbsp;Because those in power want it that way! LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-76257221678310701492017-04-16T05:28:00.000-07:002017-04-16T05:28:28.456-07:00DEPT. OF DEFENSE AND SEX TRAFFICKING<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article137215853.html">http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article137215853.html</a><br /><br />THIS case illustrates why I started this movement back in the 1980's. &nbsp;This guy was not a "pimp" for which there were laws on the books to arrest. &nbsp;This guy was a "trafficker" working for the U.S. Dept. of Defense. <br /><br />I ask you - how do you call 911 about that? <br /><br />I know I couldn't and that's why I started the hotline for victims like this at <a href="http://www.sexworkersanonymous.com/">www.sexworkersanonymous.com</a><br /><br />This case illustrates why these types of victims can't just "pick up a phone and call the cops". &nbsp;Note this guy was a computer technician. &nbsp;Back in Colombia in the 1990's, the Cartel had the whole phone system in the country rigged to where if you made a call to report them to the authorities - they knew about it immediately. &nbsp;This knowledge was followed up by a visit from an assassin who shut you up.<br /><br />We have just about reached that in this country. &nbsp;I have emails and calls from people who have tried to report sex trafficking, only to get hit with threats back by attorney's, stalked by private investigators online, and basically found themselves being targeted while the traffickers were being left completely alone. <br /><br />Which is why I have such a issue about all of this press and propaganda about "call the National Trafficking Hotline". &nbsp;Read their "privacy policy" by the way sometime. &nbsp;They "share information with their partners". &nbsp;Their "partners" include Palantir Technologies, who is essentially the CIA. &nbsp;Now if this guy is with the US. Dept. of Defense - don't you think they're all going to want to cover their ass by silencing victims?<br /><br />I know that's what they did to me in 1984 and what was I going to do about it? &nbsp;I had a prosecutor telling me "just tell me what they did to you" while I knew if I opened my mouth I'd never make it to trial. &nbsp;Either I'd be assassinated in jail like Sandra Bland, or some attorney would step in saying "national security" and shut down my defense. &nbsp;I was unable to defend myself properly because of traffickers who were hiding behind government jobs. <br /><br />It has to stop. &nbsp;Bravo this guy got brought down! &nbsp;But I ask you "what about the victims"? &nbsp;What about the victims of the DEA owned strip club in NJ? &nbsp;What about the victims of Joohoon David Lee?<br /><br />Not every victim of sex trafficking is a JUVENILE. &nbsp;Most traffickers tend to target adults because the law is more lenient and spotty when it comes to adults. <br /><br />This article proves my point we have a long way to go in changing the system we have set up to help victims of sex trafficking - TRAFFICKING NOT PIMPING.<br /><br /><br />LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-6741331373156481242017-04-15T20:59:00.000-07:002017-04-15T20:59:51.888-07:00LETTER WRITTEN TO FLORIDA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dept. of Florida Corrections</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Via Email<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Re:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; John Meekins<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To Whom this May Concern:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was minding my own business when I received an angry request on Facebook from John Meekins to speak to me on an encrypted phone line, i.e., “off the record”.&nbsp; John is a guard at a Lowell jail who is also involved in the sex trafficking field.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When I asked what this was about, I was informed he was “fired because of a complaint I had filed against him” from his job as a guard in a Florida jail.&nbsp;&nbsp; John further claimed I had “ruined a project for sex trafficking victims” by making this accusation against him.&nbsp; When I asked him why he thought I did this he told me “because they played me a tape of your phone call”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I had no idea what he was talking about.&nbsp; When I contacted the Dept. of Florida Corrections, I received an email back from Tracy who told me “John had been terminated”.&nbsp; Meaning there was basically “nothing to discuss in the matter.&nbsp; I was further told the investigator who played this tape for John also “no longer worked for the Dept. of Corrections”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">About a week ago, our hotline received a phone call at about 7:00 a.m. by an attorney who was calling to ask if I wanted to “testify at John’s hearing to get his regular job back”.&nbsp; She told Karen, the woman who answered our phone, all about this situation, including the fact that a phone recording of me supposedly making this complaint was played for John as it was his “right to face his accuser”.&nbsp; When Karen asked who this attorney was making this call, she didn’t want to give her name at first.&nbsp; It took a lot of coaxing just to get her to identify herself.. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now considering she called up our hotline and started talking about this whole matter with a woman who wasn’t me, and therefore a complete stranger, to find my privacy violated even further I found pretty offensive.&nbsp; Especially when my reputation with Sex Workers Anonymous is built upon my reputation for “confidentiality”, I’m more than upset to come in and hear that Karen was told I had “made a complaint against John” and that this “tape was played for him”.&nbsp; Karen is not related to me, nor is she my attorney. She’s just a member of SWA who your attorney had no RIGHT to discuss such a matter with her like this without my consent.&nbsp; <b>I have NO idea why this matter was even discussed with her at all.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nor do I know why I now have John thinking I filed a complaint against him when I DID NOT.&nbsp; Nor was ONE SINGLE STEP taken to verify my actual involvement in this complaint before having John told I did such a thing.&nbsp; There is a whole show on MTV called “Catfish” based on people pretending to be someone they’re not.&nbsp; It’s very easy to do with modern technology, “spoof” phones, emails, etc.&nbsp; <b>As well to think that if someone DOES make a complaint about sex trafficking in your system that THIS is how you PROTECT YOUR WITNESSES?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not only was John TOLD that I had “made a complaint against him”, but then you call and discuss the matter with the woman who answered our hotline?&nbsp; I mean where is your concept of a “right to privacy” even here let alone COMMON SENSE?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have been a paralegal for the 30 years I’ve been in recovery now.&nbsp; Mostly because so many of our members can’t find attorney’s they can afford or who want to represent them in the many legal entanglements they find themselves in because of being survivors.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was invited to “testify against John” at this hearing on April 19, 2017, but no contact information was provided Karen to give to me so I could accept the offer.&nbsp; When I emailed your department a few days ago asking for contact information about this hearing – I still haven’t received any answer.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I did a little legal research tonight and lo and behold what did I find?&nbsp; Florida Statute 92.56 -Judicial proceedings and court records involving sexual offenses and human trafficking quotes:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)(a) The confidential and exempt status of criminal intelligence information or criminal investigative information made confidential and exempt pursuant to s. 119.071(2)(h) must be maintained in court records pursuant to s. 119.0714(1)(h) and in court proceedings, including testimony from witnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(b) If a petition for access to such confidential and exempt records is filed with the trial court having jurisdiction over the alleged offense, the confidential and exempt status of such information shall be maintained by the court if the state or the victim demonstrates that:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1. The identity of the victim is not already known in the community;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2. The victim has not voluntarily called public attention to the offense;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3. The identity of the victim has not otherwise become a reasonable subject of public concern;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">4. The disclosure of the victim’s identity would be offensive to a reasonable person; and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">5. The disclosure of the victim’s identity would:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">a. Endanger the victim because the assailant has not been apprehended and is not otherwise known to the victim;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">b. Endanger the victim because of the likelihood of retaliation, harassment, or intimidation;<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">c. Cause severe emotional or mental harm to the victim;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">d. Make the victim unwilling to testify as a witness; or<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">e. Be inappropriate for other good cause shown.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2) A defendant charged with a crime described in s. 787.06(3)(a)1., (c)1., or (e)1., s. 787.06(3)(b), (d), (f), or (g), chapter 794, or chapter 800, or with child abuse, aggravated child abuse, or sexual performance by a child as described in chapter 827, may apply to the trial court for an order of disclosure of information in court records held confidential and exempt pursuant to s. 119.0714(1)(h) or maintained as confidential and exempt pursuant to court order under this section. Such identifying information concerning the victim may be released to the defendant or his or her attorney in order to prepare the defense. The confidential and exempt status of this information may not be construed to prevent the disclosure of the victim’s identity to the defendant; however<b>, the defendant may not disclose the victim’s identity to any person other than the defendant’s attorney or any other person directly involved in the preparation of the defense. A willful and knowing disclosure of the identity of the victim to any other person by the defendant constitutes contempt.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(3) <b>The state may use a pseudonym instead of the victim’s name to</b> designate the victim of a crime described in s. 787.06(3)(a)1., (c)1., or (e)1., in s. 787.06(3)(b), (d), (f), or (g), or in chapter 794 or chapter 800, or of child abuse, aggravated child abuse, or sexual performance by a child as described in chapter 827, or any crime involving the production, possession, or promotion of child pornography as described in chapter 847, in all court records and records of court proceedings, both civil and criminal.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(4) <b>The protection of this section may be waived by the victim of the alleged offense in a writing filed with the court, in which the victim consents to the use or release of identifying information during court proceedings and in the records of court proceedings</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(5) This section does not prohibit the publication or broadcast of the substance of trial testimony in a prosecution for an offense described in s. 787.06(3)(a)1., (c)1., or (e)1., s. 787.06(3)(b), (d), (f), or (g), chapter 794, or chapter 800, or a crime of child abuse, aggravated child abuse, or sexual performance by a child, as described in chapter 827, <b>but the publication or broadcast may not include an identifying photograph, an identifiable voice, or the name or address of the victim, unless the victim has consented in writing to the publication and filed such consent with the court or unless the court has declared such records not confidential and exempt as provided for in subsection (1).</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(6) <b>A willful and knowing violation of this section or a willful and knowing failure to obey any court order issued under this section constitutes contempt.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I call your attention to the parts I highlighted in bold.&nbsp; Let’s say for the sake of argument I had made a formal criminal complaint against John Meekins with respect to sex trafficking.&nbsp; Which by the way I want to make very clear in this letter I DID NOT.&nbsp; I did NOT contact anyone to make a formal complaint about anything against John Meekins which started this process rolling.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<i>So my identity should not have been “revealed to anyone but the defendant’s attorney” IF THAT, and to have done so puts the plaintiffs in “contempt”, even if I DID make such a complaint.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It also SPECIFICALLY states “unless the victim has consented in writing to the publication” which includes a recording with an “identifiable voice” as was played to John, along with stating my name to this tape, and further filed my permission with the court to do so – then the plaintiffs are also further in “contempt” for not keeping these records “confidential”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This phone call a few days ago found Karen asking this attorney specifically “what steps are going to be taken to protect Jody from retaliation” after she asked I testify against John at this April 19, 2017 hearing.&nbsp; I have yet to receive any type of information back from anyone about what exactly IS going to be done to protect me from any retaliation in the future, as well as what I’ve already suffered, from such a violation of dragging my name into this manner as has been done.&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>In fact, I can’t even get specific information about where this hearing is being held, who is involved, is this a court proceeding, etc.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now since John’s “right to face his accuser” was so generously honored as we were told is how this whole thing went down – I sure don’t seem to be hearing back from anyone about what MY rights are here ESPECIALLY if I DID FILE a complaint against John.&nbsp; Because what I’m seeing here is that I just had someone wound up John at me like a missile and fired.&nbsp; &nbsp;Lord knows that if I was in fact a REAL sex trafficking victim who had been trafficked within your facility by John and THIS is how you TREAT VICTIMS – <b>we have a SERIOUS problem here</b>.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Including the fact that I’m being classified as an “accuser” of John, which would mean I’m also a “victim” of something.&nbsp; That or someone is certainly.&nbsp; Meaning the way I’m being treated is how you treat victims over there?&nbsp; Well I have a serious problem with this being no one has contacted me to speak to me about any type of services either, what’s being done about said complaint, or anything about what supposedly I accused John of, let alone to verify I was even the person who made this call or complaint against John.&nbsp; Certainly if I “made a complaint against John” that means I’m a “victim” then right?&nbsp; That or SOMEBODY IS.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Going back to my research, Florida Statute 960.01 - Guidelines for fair treatment of victims and witnesses in the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems is quoted as saying:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(a) Information concerning services available to victims of adult and juvenile crime.—As provided in s. 27.0065, state attorneys and public defenders shall gather information regarding the following services in the geographic boundaries of their respective circuits and shall provide such information to each law enforcement agency with jurisdiction within such geographic boundaries. Law enforcement personnel shall ensure, through distribution of a victim’s rights information card or brochure at the crime scene, during the criminal investigation, and in any other appropriate manner, that victims are given, as a matter of course at the earliest possible time, information about:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1. <b>The availability of crime victim compensation</b>, if applicable;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2. <b>Crisis intervention services, supportive or bereavement counseling, social service support referrals, and community-based victim treatment programs;</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3. <b>The role of the victim in the criminal or juvenile justice process, including what the victim may expect from the system as well as what the system expects from the victim;<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">4. <b>The stages in the criminal or juvenile justice process which are of significance to the victim and the manner in which information about such stages can be obtained</b>;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">5. <b>The right of a victim, who is not incarcerated, including the victim’s parent or guardian if the victim is a minor, the lawful representative of the victim or of the victim’s parent or guardian if the victim is a minor, and the next of kin of a homicide victim, to be informed, to be present, and to be heard when relevant, at all crucial stages of a criminal or juvenile proceeding</b>, to the extent that this right does not interfere with constitutional rights of the accused, as provided by s. 16(b), Art. I of the State Constitution;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">6. In the case of incarcerated victims, the right to be informed and to submit written statements at all crucial stages of the criminal proceedings, parole proceedings, or juvenile proceedings; and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7. The right of a victim to a prompt and timely disposition of the case in order to minimize the period during which the victim must endure the responsibilities and stress involved to the extent that this right does not interfere with the constitutional rights of the accused.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(b) Information for purposes of notifying victim or appropriate next of kin of victim or other designated contact of victim.—In the case of a homicide, pursuant to chapter 782; or a sexual offense, pursuant to chapter 794; or an attempted murder or sexual offense, pursuant to chapter 777; or stalking, pursuant to s. 784.048; or domestic violence, pursuant to s. 25.385:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1. The arresting law enforcement officer or personnel of an organization that provides assistance to a victim or to the appropriate next of kin of the victim or other designated contact must request that the victim or appropriate next of kin of the victim or other designated contact complete a victim notification card. However, the victim or appropriate next of kin of the victim or other designated contact may choose not to complete the victim notification card.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2. Unless the victim or the appropriate next of kin of the victim or other designated contact waives the option to complete the victim notification card, a copy of the victim notification card must be filed with the incident report or warrant in the sheriff’s office of the jurisdiction in which the incident report or warrant originated. The notification card shall, at a minimum, consist of:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">a. The name, address, and phone number of the victim; or<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">b. The name, address, and phone number of the appropriate next of kin of the victim; or<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">c. The name, address, and telephone number of a designated contact other than the victim or appropriate next of kin of the victim; and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">d. <b>Any relevant identification or case numbers assigned to the case.</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3. The chief administrator, or a person designated by the chief administrator, of a county jail, municipal jail, juvenile detention facility, or residential commitment facility shall make a reasonable attempt to notify the alleged victim or appropriate next of kin of the alleged victim or other designated contact within 4 hours following the release of the defendant on bail or, in the case of a juvenile offender, upon the release from residential detention or commitment. If the chief administrator, or designee, is unable to contact the alleged victim or appropriate next of kin of the alleged victim or other designated contact by telephone, the chief administrator, or designee, must send to the alleged victim or appropriate next of kin of the alleged victim or other designated contact a written notification of the defendant’s release.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">4. Unless otherwise requested by the victim or the appropriate next of kin of the victim or other designated contact, the information contained on the victim notification card must be sent by the chief administrator, or designee, of the appropriate facility to the subsequent correctional or residential commitment facility following the sentencing and incarceration of the defendant, and unless otherwise requested by the victim or the appropriate next of kin of the victim or other designated contact, he or she must be notified of the release of the defendant from incarceration as provided by law.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">5. If the defendant was arrested pursuant to a warrant issued or taken into custody pursuant to s. 985.101 in a jurisdiction other than the jurisdiction in which the defendant is being released, and the alleged victim or appropriate next of kin of the alleged victim or other designated contact does not waive the option for notification of release, the chief correctional officer or chief administrator of the facility releasing the defendant shall make a reasonable attempt to immediately notify the chief correctional officer of the jurisdiction in which the warrant was issued or the juvenile was taken into custody pursuant to s. 985.101, and the chief correctional officer of that jurisdiction shall make a reasonable attempt to notify the alleged victim or appropriate next of kin of the alleged victim or other designated contact, as provided in this paragraph, that the defendant has been or will be released.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(c) <b>Information concerning protection available to victim or witness</b>.—A victim or witness shall be furnished, as a matter of course, with information on steps that are available to law enforcement officers and state attorneys to protect victims and witnesses from intimidation. Victims of domestic violence shall also be given information about the address confidentiality program provided under s. 741.403.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(d) Notification of scheduling changes.—Each victim or witness who has been scheduled to attend a criminal or juvenile justice proceeding shall be notified as soon as possible by the agency scheduling his or her appearance of any change in scheduling which will affect his or her appearance.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(e) Advance notification to victim or relative of victim concerning judicial proceedings; right to be present</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.—Any victim, parent, guardian, or lawful representative of a minor who is a victim, or relative of a homicide victim shall receive from the appropriate agency, at the address found in the police report or the victim notification card if such has been provided to the agency, prompt advance notification, unless the agency itself does not have advance notification, of judicial and postjudicial proceedings relating to his or her case, including all proceedings or hearings relating to:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You’ll further note the parts I’ve bolded here stating I’m supposed to be given things like a case number, told when and where any hearings are being held, as well as information on what protection can be given me.&nbsp; <i>ALL OF WHICH&nbsp; I have not been provided voluntarily yet, nor have I after my requests for this information specifically in writing either</i>.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now I can almost hear what the argument is going to be about this – that is that “this isn’t a formal criminal proceeding so therefore these statutes doesn’t apply”.&nbsp; That this is just an “employment matter” about whether or not John’s pay scale stays lowered, as well as his job duties restricted also, as the woman told Karen so these laws don’t specifically apply.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well if that’s the case, then I fail to see WHERE John “has the right to face his accuser” as in a tape being played for him with my name being identified then if this IS NOT a “criminal” proceeding.&nbsp; If you’re having an employment dispute of some kind with John, and dragging out my name to justify your wanting to lower his pay or responsibilities – I fail to see where that gives you the legal right to even then CALL ME A “ACCUSOR”, and then make the decision all on your own to involve me in this in the way as has been done.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In other words, if I’m an “accuser” of John he “has the right to face” then where is the criminal proceeding against John?&nbsp; If you’re going to say you don’t have to honor these statutes because “this isn’t a criminal proceeding”, or a lawsuit - &nbsp;then please explain to me how then it was decided upon to suck my name into this matter as an “accuser”?&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Since no one will tell me anything about this case against John, I went online further and found this article </span><a href="https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2016/feb/2/floridas-department-corrections-culture-corruption-abuse-and-deaths/"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2016/feb/2/floridas-department-corrections-culture-corruption-abuse-and-deaths/</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This article stated “The investigation also noted that LCI guard John Meekins filed a police report stating Martinez had threatened him. “You’re going to get your ass beat in the parking lot after work,” the assistant warden allegedly told Meekins in front of two other guards after Meekins conducted a shakedown that resulted in the confiscation of contraband from two of Martinez’s alleged favorite prisoners.”&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The article goes on to state that Martinez was evidently removed from his job because of the contraband found by John’s actions.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking to me like the only thing John’s guilty of is getting a warden fired, NOT of “sex trafficking”.&nbsp; So I’m confused as to why I would be calling to file a complaint against John exactly..&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This issue is more than a “personal” one here because of my position as founder, and director, of Sex Workers Anonymous.&nbsp; We build our reputation upon NOT involving law enforcement, filing complaints of any kind, etc., against anyone without first the victim inviting us to do so, and even then we don’t consider such things without first consulting with an attorney first to make sure everyone’s rights are protected and we’re aware of what we’re involving ourselves in. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I don’t take it lightly at all when I hear John running around saying we “filed a complaint against him” for one thing in the sex trafficking field harming our reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For another, that I supposedly “am responsible for tanking a sex trafficking project” not to mention I’m DEEPLY concerned that if this is how you do treat someone who does “blow the whistle” on something or something going on in your Dept. of Corrections, ESPECIALLY if that involves a guard, <b>then I think we have a lot to discuss here when it comes to your treatment of people you are using as “witnesses”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Especially now that laws do exist to be able to file charges against certain people for certain actions we couldn’t even do years ago, and in some cases we still can’t.&nbsp; For example, while we do have federal recognition of domestic sex trafficking now the Trafficking Act of 2000 was passed – but I STILL find it deeply disturbing men like Joohoon David Lee was only charged with “bribery” and not “sex trafficking” because we still don’t have laws on the books which would allow us to charge him for what he did using his badge to traffick women who have no ability to prosecute him for his actions being his badge has granted him not only immunity, but also it seems nothing is being done about the family he falsely accused of sex trafficking in order to distract away attention from his real actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What am I to say what with all of this when an inmate in your corrections community comes to me saying she “wants to blow the whistle” on her traffickers about your ability to not only treat her well, but keep her ALIVE for that matter.&nbsp; If you look at the infamous case of Margo Compton and what happened to her after she prosecuted her traffickers – then you can see clearly why I’ve advertised our hotline for victims to call for help where they don’t have to prosecute anyone in order to receive this help.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/When-Jailbirds-Sing-It-was-the-pure-savagery-of-3018647.php">http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/When-Jailbirds-Sing-It-was-the-pure-savagery-of-3018647.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In some cases, for some victims, this means literally death because we STILL are not set up properly to protect trafficking victims fully when testifying as Margo’s case clearly illustrates.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m further troubled when my requests to have materials for Sex Workers Anonymous distributed within the jail that John Meekins works at, or did work at, is not responding to my requests to (1) have the pay phone “unblocked” so that inmates can call for help with matters they don’t feel comfortable talking about with the guards, (since our phone is listed as a resource with the Polaris National Trafficking Hotline there’s no reason why we can’t be an “unblocked” number for inmates to call these days especially since you don’t allow inmates to call 800 numbers anymore), and (2) allow me to distribute reading and step materials for our 12 step program to your inmates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">We publish the ONLY book on recovery from the sex industry, including sex trafficking and pimping, in the world written by those in recovery in the same spirit as the Alcoholics Anonymous “Big Book”.&nbsp; Ours is called the “Recovery Guide” and many of our members for over 30 years now have sworn this book has “saved their lives”.&nbsp; We have our 1<sup>st</sup> edition published in 1992, and our 2<sup>nd</sup> edition revised version updated in 2017.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On top of the SWA “Recovery Guide”, we have a “mail order step study program” specifically designed for inmates to be able to spend their time while incarcerated working on “their steps” and thus recovery.&nbsp; We’ve also published a book written for the family members and/or loved ones of those who are either going through exiting the sex industry, and/or those who are being trafficked and pimped – on how to support their loved one through their recovery, as well as help themselves.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">These books are for SWAN, a program which is modeled after Alanon in the AA program.&nbsp; I’ve also just about finished my memoirs which outline not just my life story, the founding of our 12 step program and hotline, but also detailing the very history of the modern day domestic sex trafficking movement itself.&nbsp;&nbsp; All in all I think these are much better books for your inmates than books like “The Happy Hooker” by Xaviera Hollander, provided them by SWOP, but that’s my opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now I have seen that you are allowing John to bring in books donated by Sex Workers Outreach Project, or SWOP, which promotes prostitution as a form of “work”, while denying sex trafficking even exists.&nbsp; I’ve seen the books which are being donated and not only do they completely “glamourize” sex work much like the Marlboro Man glamourizes smoking without talking about the risk of addiction and/or cancer when one smokes - but it creates a “connection” between the inmate that I’m not being allowed a “fair and equal” chance to do the same with respect to our program offering them exit services.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This “book donation” program promotes a connection between prostitutes and SWOP who actively recruits women to go to work for the legal ranches in Nevada, as well as strip clubs, and porn production companies.&nbsp; I’ve seen SWOP use their “SWOP Behind Bars” program to not only help them identify prostitutes within the correctional system, also using John’s help to do so, but even hold fund raisers for them so that they can be flown upon release directly to the legal ranches of Nevada.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why do I have such an objection to this?&nbsp; It’s not like it’s “pimps on the street” as John once remarked to me about how pimps will send letters to the inmates to try and recruit them also within the jail right?&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Wrong!&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Within your own correctional system you just experienced a case where the “whistle blower” within a “legal work environment” such as the jail experienced legal and career repercussions from reporting criminal behavior witnessed “on the job”.&nbsp; Further, the Supreme Court, the highest court in our country, decided because of this case that there is no such thing as “free speech” when it involves talking about something witnessed “while on the job”.&nbsp; The article in the Prison Legal News and Miami Dade newspaper talk about employees being fired, reprimanded, forced into confidentiality agreements, “dog and pony shows” being put on for the benefit of investigations into wrong doing within the jail to cover up wrong doing, and so on and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What I’m trying to say is that if within the correctional system with the employees being guards the state of Florida is having a real hard time allowing “whistle blowers” to illegal and abusive behavior to be able to come forward without fear, without repercussion or retaliation, and/or without even facing possibly not only legal action but being told they can’t “exercise their free speech” because of what they saw on the job, not to mention the risk of losing one’s job, pension, benefits, etc. – then I ask you do you REALLY think that if someone within the LEGAL SEX INDUSTRY were to witness the SAME type of abuse, exploitation and/or wrong doing they would then encounter none of the same problems exemplified by these guards if they were to try to go to the authorities to report on abuses they were witnessing?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Case in point – do we in this country right now on the books have one documented case of an employee of a legal brothel in Nevada, and/or a legal strip club and/or a legal porn production company coming forward to report sex trafficking of either themselves, or someone they witnessed, successfully and without retaliation?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not to my knowledge have we had such a case.&nbsp; So that’s my “problem” with inmates with now criminal records, who may even be on parole or probation, being recruited from within these facilities to work within the legal sex industries where any type of abuse, exploitation and/or sex trafficking would NOT EVER be reported.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With women at the legal ranches being forced to reside within their four walls 24/7, and with no communications in nor out of the ranch being “private” being it’s the ranchs’ phone they’re talking on, the ranch’s internet service providers, their front door even – these GUARANTEES if any type of such victim exists, or something like this is witnessed – <b>it would never be reported.</b>&nbsp; I dare say I wouldn’t even know how a victim would leave being that it’s illegal in many types of situations to even walk out of the building without risking an arrest for “violating curfew”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">AT LEAST ON THE “STREETS” a victim of sex trafficking, or someone witnessing trafficking, would be able to pick up the phone and call for help or for help to leave the situation</span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.&nbsp; With strip clubs you’ve got bouncers on the door who can block your exit, as well as porn production sets have also had women raped on them such as the women who reported James Deen raped them while the cast simply “looked on”.&nbsp; With one of James Deen’s rapes, the camera kept rolling while producers threatened the victim with legal action for “stopping production” and “breaching their contract” if they were to have left the set after being raped to get medical attention as one victim reported happened.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Which is again why I believe strongly “decriminalization” is the only way to try protect sex workers from victimization, trafficking, abuse, false imprisonment, etc.&nbsp; To “legalize” this industry creates the same problems, if not much worse, <b>than that of these Florida guards are experiencing right now.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But my point is that SWOP is being facilitated by the Florida correctional system to identify and create bonds with their inmates, while we at SWA are not being afforded this same “balancing” bonding with the inmates as well.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides, I’m sorry if I can’t financially compete with women who are engaging in sex work to buy and ship books for inmates while I struggle to pay my rent on my SSI disability check.&nbsp; I can assure you that from what I’m hearing, if these same inmates were to try and turn to SWOP for assistance to exit the industry, and/or report and/or escape sex trafficking – they are not equipped to do so.&nbsp; Again, I’ve not heard of anything but DENIALS of sex trafficking out of SWOP to date.&nbsp; I have talked to people within SWOP who have wanted to report instances of sex trafficking, who tell me they haven’t out of fear of being “shunned” out of the group in the same manner in which they see we’ve been treated since Robin, their founder, died in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In fact, I have a screen shot of one chapter literally telling a woman who had just left her pimp and was therefore standing in a doorway, broke, with no place to sleep for the night, no transportation, and no idea where to go to “go sleep in a doorway” as SWOP’s response to this poor woman who didn’t know our hotline existed.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have another email from a woman who claims a member of SWOP came to her so called “rescue” when she told her of being raped and trafficked by a police officer.&nbsp; The woman claims this member then spent the night, then while she was sleeping took her computer and evidence with her of what happened and split – leaving her with no evidence to be able to prosecute the guy who was doing this to her.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So while attempts by our members of Sex Workers Anonymous to also establish a connection with these same inmates, so that we can start helping them find “other” employment upon release, housing, counseling, as well as finding new “friends” who aren’t connected to the “streets” who are in recovery, and also supply them with books on recovery rather than books glamourizing the sex industry unrealistically are going completely ignored – a full scale “SWOP Behind Bars” and “Books for Inmates” is going on facilitated by the correctional system nationally – not just in Florida I need to add.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In other words, I think things are pretty screwed up over there right now.</span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp; Especially considering our program has not only been the one who created the first ever “alternative sentencing and diversion” programs for prostitutes, as well as sex trafficking victims, in this country for men, women and transgenders, in Los Angeles, California, but also in Allentown, PA, Chicago, Illinois, Phoenix, Arizona, Vancouver, Canada, and about 8 other states I could name who have had our programs not only going within the correctional facility, but also part of the “re-entry” program for inmates.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If you look at our members such as Kathleen Mitchell, and Brenda Myers-Powell just to name but two who have gone on to start their own programs within the correctional systems, then I think it’s pretty clear that we do good work.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A 10 year long study into our program published in the 2009 report “Leaving Prostitution” by professor Sharon Oselin more than proved the effectiveness of our program as well for getting people out, and keeping them out, of the sex industry whether trafficked or not.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As well as a report which was done on our “Program for Female Offenders” in Allentown, PA.&nbsp; These were completely independent researchers who looked into our effectiveness I should add.&nbsp; Sure there are people who want to focus on my personality for some reason – but this is why I bring the attention back to OUR RESULTS.&nbsp; Who I am as a person has NOTHING to do with the proven effectiveness of our program.&nbsp; In fact, we have multiple testimonials in their own words up on </span><a href="http://www.leavingtheliferadio.com/"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">www.leavingtheliferadio.com</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> for anyone to listen to.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What do I do about this situation now with John Meekins?&nbsp; No one is answering me.&nbsp; I do not receive grants nor hold fund raisers, nor do I even get a salary for my work with SWA.&nbsp; I’m on disability right now because of a stroke meaning I live on a limited fixed income and thus “donate” all of my SWA work as a “volunteer”.&nbsp; I can’t just fly down there, retain an attorney, nor spend four hours at a whack on the phone trying to call around to get answers.&nbsp; I have to do this work “on my free time”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You imagine coming home from your full-time job and THEN sitting down to do the work SWA requires of me, and then tell me how much time and money you can invest in chasing down the information we need to address what’s going on here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But answers I need to get so I’m writing this letter, and sending copies of it to related agencies I think might be able to help me figure out what’s going on here hoping someone will step up and give me some answers and/or assistance in this matter.&nbsp; I don’t have a full time PR firm like SWOP either.&nbsp; &nbsp;I have to spent 99 % of the time I have working with our members.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I need some help figuring out what to do about these SERIOUS problems I’m talking about I have here, and I’m just glad that I’m not dealing with a serious violent trafficker who just got told he’s been carted off to jail because of &nbsp;me pointing the finger at him and I’m about to get murdered like Margo Compton and her twins were in retaliation.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My point however is what if it was involving a violent dangerous trafficker who just had a tape played for him where he was told was “Jody Williams” who was “his accuser” - <b>and I think you can see why I’m concerned here deeply.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So no I don’t consider this a “frivolous” issue, but instead one of “life and death” potentially I wanted to explore now before it does involve someone in a real life and death situation who is trying to accuse someone of something within your correctional system.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m therefore addressing this letter to any agency I think might have some idea what’s going on in the hopes they’ll get back to me before this April 19, 2017 hearing that supposedly I’ve been “invited to testify at” so I can get to the bottom of what’s going on here exactly.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jody Williams<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cc:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (The following names were taken in order from the Prison Legal News Article and the<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ACLU Directory of Program I found online)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rick Scott, Florida Governor - media@eog.myflorida.com<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">John Meekins<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lowell Correctional Institution for Women Fax (352) 401-5331<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ricky Dixon, Florida Corrections Secretary - </span><a href="mailto:dixon.ricky@mail.dc.state.fl.us"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">dixon.ricky@mail.dc.state.fl.us</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Miami Herald, Government Editor - mlambert@miamiherald.com<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Florida Chief Inspector General - </span><a href="mailto:cig@eog.myflorida.com"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">cig@eog.myflorida.com</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement - </span><a href="mailto:Info@FDLE.state.fl.us"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Info@FDLE.state.fl.us</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Florida Attorney General Committee on Status of Women – Fax 850-921-4131<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Teamsters Union for Guards - </span><a href="mailto:admin@local2011.com"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">admin@local2011.com</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Howard Simon, ACLU of Florida - </span><a href="mailto:aclufl@aclufl.org"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">aclufl@aclufl.org</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Carlos Trujillo, House Criminal Justice Subcommittee Chair Fax (850) 414-6879<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sen. Randolph Bracy, Senate Criminal Justice Subcommittee Chair Fax (407) 656-6719<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Florida Internal Affairs, Sheriff Bill Prummell - </span><a href="mailto:internalaffairs@ccso.org"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">internalaffairs@ccso.org</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Allison DeFoor, Project on Accountable Justice - dbrodsky@fsu.edu&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Senator Rob Bradley – Fax (888) 263-0641<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sheriff Mike Harrison – Fax (863) 946-6315<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Senator Greg Evers –&nbsp; </span><a href="mailto:evers.greg.web@flsenate.gov"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">evers.greg.web@flsenate.gov</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Federal Bureau of Prisons Fax 305-536-7368<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dept. of Justice - </span><a href="mailto:DOJ.OIP.FOIA@usdoj.gov"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">DOJ.OIP.FOIA@usdoj.gov</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stop Prison Abuse Now - </span><a href="mailto:info@nationinside.org"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">info@nationinside.org</span></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Florida Institutional Legal Services -Fax &nbsp;</span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">(352) 331-5202</span><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACLU National Prison Project - </span><a href="mailto:npp@npp-aclu.org"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">npp@npp-aclu.org</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; National Center on Institutions - </span><a href="mailto:aboring@ncianet.org"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">aboring@ncianet.org</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Sentencing Project - </span><a href="mailto:staff@sentencingproject.org"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">staff@sentencingproject.org</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Partnership for Safety &amp; Justice - Fax (503) 232-1922<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Human Rights Defense Center – </span><a href="mailto:info@prisonlegalnews.org"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">info@prisonlegalnews.org</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prisoners’ Rights Research Project - &nbsp;Fax (217) 244-1478<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dept. of Justice Civil Rights Division - Fax (202) 514-0212<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Books to Prisoners - </span><a href="mailto:bookstoprisoners@cs.com"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">bookstoprisoners@cs.com</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prison Book Program - </span><a href="mailto:info@prisonbookprogram.org"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">info@prisonbookprogram.org</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Books Behind Bars - </span><a href="mailto:generalinformation@writeaprisoner.com"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">generalinformation@writeaprisoner.com</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Amnesty International – Fax (212) 627-1451<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents - </span><a href="mailto:ccip@earthlink.net"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ccip@earthlink.net</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Polaris – <a href="mailto:info@polarisproject.org">info@polarisproject.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dept. of State - TIPOutreach@state.gov<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Family &amp; Corrections Network - fcn@fcnetwork.org <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prisoner Visitation Network - pvs@afsc.org <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gay and Lesbian Advocates &amp; Defenders - </span><a href="mailto:gladlaw@glad.org"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">gladlaw@glad.org</span></a><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">National Immigrants’ Rights -&nbsp; Fax (510) 622-0050<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">ACLU National Womens Rights -&nbsp; Fax &nbsp;(212) 549-2580<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Florida Justice Institute - rcberg@floridajusticeinstitute.org<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-66922635121498422642017-04-15T08:49:00.000-07:002017-04-15T08:49:30.943-07:00ACLU DIRECTORY OF PROGRAMS FOR INMATES<a href="https://www.aclu.org/files/images/asset_upload_file44_33694.pdf">https://www.aclu.org/files/images/asset_upload_file44_33694.pdf</a>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5315331966306529296.post-72777455004170047782017-04-14T11:22:00.000-07:002017-04-15T02:44:00.566-07:00PRESS RELEASE - SEX WORKERS ANONYMOUS GOING TO BE 30 YEARS OLD SOON & CV FOR FOUNDER<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Sex Workers Anonymous (formerly “Prostitutes Anonymous”)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Jody Williams, Founder and Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">(702) 488-1127 Cell/Text or (888) 629-2002 Toll Free<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">www.sexworkersanonymous.com<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">www.hightechmadam.com<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">www.leavingtheliferadio.com<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Every movement starts with one person.&nbsp; Look for example at the movement to have the Italian “mob” recognized as existing in the USA.&nbsp; Back in the 1940’s, 1950’s, and even part of the 1960’s – our country did not “officially” recognize the Italian “five families” as existing here in the USA.&nbsp; While we might have acknowledged the “Black Hand” existed in Italy, even the FBI was officially denying the existence of the “Cosa Nostra” in the USA up to the 1960’s.&nbsp; It was not until a man, Joe Valachi, started talking to the law about the “family” he was a “soldier” in, thus breaking their code of silence for the first time, did we start to hear about organized crime.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">After his memoir was published, Joe testified at Congress, and then a film made with Charles Bronson playing him – things changed.&nbsp; The racketeering laws were written and passed into law.&nbsp; After this, once members of the crime family were asked to turn on their brothers “witness protection” was invented to protect their lives after testifying.&nbsp; Angered at how Italians were being talked about as “criminals”, a prosecutor named Rudolph Giuliani, who was Italian-American, went to the government asking for money for a task force to be formed to focus strictly upon these mobsters.&nbsp; Then the 1970’s hit film “The Godfather” was made announcing to us this “urban myth” that in fact the Italian mob was “real”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Why do I know this about the Italian mob?&nbsp; Because at one point in our history we used to not believe Americans could be “victims of sex trafficking”, nor that this could be happening on American soil.&nbsp; Victims had even tried to tell the public about this being real such as when Linda Lovelace tried to in her book “Ordeal”, or even Bruce Lee tried in his unedited version of “Enter the Dragon” released in 1973.&nbsp; Even Elizabeth Taylor tried to talk about sex trafficking, or “white slavery” as it was called back then – all to a public who didn’t believe it was happening.&nbsp; So we didn’t have any systems set up within law enforcement, nor our mental health fields, to address what was viewed back then as no different then than if someone came forward today saying they were “being kidnapped and sexually violated by little green Martians”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">In order to have a road map on how to get this country to change this view, I studied how we came to believe in the Italian mafia.&nbsp; Since it started with Joe Valachi stepping up to tell his story – I started stepping up to tell mine in my first national talk show appearance on a Sally Jesse Raphael show in 1987.&nbsp; I announced on that show I was launching the first hotline in this country for anyone to call for any reason who wanted help to “leave the sex industry”.&nbsp; Remember, we didn’t even coin the term “sex trafficking” until 13 years later with the passing of the Trafficking Act of 2000.&nbsp; The 12 step program I founded was created to provide the first ever “alternative to incarceration” for these victims so they could stop being treated like criminals.&nbsp; I also created the first adult “safe house” for victims, along with the first alternative sentencing and diversion programs for those wanting to exit sex work – including those of sex trafficking victims.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Our program, renamed to Sex Workers Anonymous in 1995, is celebrating 30 years in existence on August 15, 1987.&nbsp; To date, I’ve answered our hotline to the tune of 500,000 calls from all over the world.&nbsp; This is five times more calls than Polaris has taken in through the National Trafficking Hotline to date in comparison.&nbsp; SWA is the only program which is for anyone, male, female or transgender, to be provided with “outpatient” assistance to exit any part of the sex industry, for any reason, including that of sex trafficking.&nbsp; In 1992, I authored the only book written by survivors for those wanting to exit the industry on recovery ever written.&nbsp; I’ve also published the only book for family members and loved ones of those exiting the industry, including those trafficked, on how to assist them in helping someone exit the industry, and how to cope with this themselves.&nbsp; Our program has been researched multiple times by reputable reporters, researchers, and authors who have all written glowing positive reports on the effectiveness of our program.&nbsp; In 1995, I was the first person certified by the FBI to testify at traffickers’ hearings on the brainwashing techniques employed by them to make their victims “think” they’re acting of their own free will when in fact not.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;">Not only did I start the “modern” movement to have sex trafficking recognized as “real” domestically (it had died out in the 1960’s entirely), which resulted in this federal recognition being granted with the passing of the Trafficking Act of 2000 – but there is no one in the world who has spoken to more survivors of sex trafficking of all ages, genders, religion, lack of religion, and/or geographic location than myself.&nbsp; If you ever need a quote from the founder of the largest, oldest, group of a wide range of survivors who started this all – please get in touch with us at the contact information above.&nbsp; The number of our members currently in our database is 190,000 with 49,000 subscribers to our social media also.<o:p></o:p></span></div>________________________________________________________________________<br /><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL FACTS ABOUT JODY WILLIAMS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1981&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Became the first victim of ring to buy her way out of a “family” of “generational” pimps related to Richard Pryor.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1982&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Found herself being forced into what was later dubbed as “Iran Contra” where she witnessed sex trafficking.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1983&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Created first “safe house” for adult domestic sex trafficking victims, and those seeking to escape pimps in USA.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1984&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Was falsely arrested and accused of “pimping” at a “brothel” which was in fact the “safe house”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1987&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Launched the first hotline for anyone to call who wanted help for any reason to leave any part of sex industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1987&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Created first ever recovery program for those needing help to exit sex work – including sex trafficking victims. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Told public the program was launched because these “victims needed help, not to be treated as criminals”.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1987&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Los Angeles County launched the first “alternative sentencing and diversion” program for prostitutes through&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Prostitutes Anonymous.&nbsp; This was the name first given the 12 step program so as to offer an alternative to "</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">incarceration” to those convicted of prostitution who were in reality “sex trafficking victims” under old laws.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1988&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Joe Conforte, founder of the first ever legal brothel in Nevada, decided to expand legalized prostitution into&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">California.&nbsp; He invested over $1,000,000 into a PR firm, and another million into a “rigged” study about&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">HIV/AIDS.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">This Bill failed at the end of the year with Jody being his only public opponent during this campaign.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1989&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Co-created the “Program for Female Offenders” in Allentown, PA modeled after the Los Angeles program. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Within the first year, this program saved over $1,000,000 and delayed the need to build a new larger jail. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">All women who were in this program completed, left prostitution entirely, except two women who were bipolar.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1991&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After sponsoring Paige Latin who was originally from Florida into recovery, Jody assisted in creating first&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Canadian chapter of “Prostitutes Anonymous” with her heading up this chapter.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1992&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paige’s work with Prostitutes Anonymous developed a need for more social services for prostitutes in the area. &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">SPACE was originally created by Paige, which then developed into PACE -</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">a harm reduction program.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1992&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After interviewing over 4,000 male, female and transgender sex workers from all over the world in recovery, &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Jody took interviews from this community and authored the first ever “Recovery Guide” for sex workers/victims.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1995&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jody was certified by the FBI as first person ever to serve as an expert witness in “brainwashing” against pimps..&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1998&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Worked with same 22 US Attorneys who later were fired for “no stated reason” by Bush to aid Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">1999&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The passing of the Trafficking Act of 2000 was the result of a 13 year long process started back in 1987 by&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Jody to “raise public awareness” this issue was very real, and laws needed to be created to provide help.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp;Because major media was refusing to air any content on this subject, Jody “tricked” her way onto TV with&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">“live” cameras by offering to talk about “victimless crimes” and then once the mike was on – telling the truth.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">2000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trafficking Act of 2000 was passed giving sex trafficking a name and federal recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">2007&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gave press conference in Nevada sex trafficking was ‘worse” in the state because of legalized prostitution.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">2009&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Results of 10 year study into Jody’s 12 step program released in “Leaving Prostitution” report to glowing reviews.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">John Quinones of ABC’s “What Would You Do?” published chapter on Jody in “Heroes Among Us” book.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">2012&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beat single-handed campaign to expand legal NV brothels to result in the opening of the “Mob Museum” instead.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Answered the 500,000<sup>th</sup> call on the Sex Workers Anonymous hotline taking calls from victims worldwide.&nbsp; Sex Workers Anonymous is now the oldest, and largest, program &nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">of those recovering from sex work in world.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">__________________________________________________________________________</span><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Jody Williams<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>(702) 488-1127<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>sexworkrecovery@yahoo.com<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><i><u>Curriculum Vitae for Jody Williams<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><u>Founding Accomplishments<o:p></o:p></u></i></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">August 1, 1987 – wrote to Alcoholics Anonymous General Office for permission to adapt “Steps” to the program of “Prostitutes Anonymous”.&nbsp; Permission was granted.&nbsp;&nbsp; Formed a “mentor board” of founders from other 12 step programs, people who worked at the head offices of 12 step programs, people who had been sponsored by founders of 12 step programs, and people from the Holocaust Support Group and the Vietnam Veteran's PTSD program to advise me how to run an “effective” 12 step program.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">August 3, 1987 – installed our first 800 number that became our first “hotline” phone for anyone wanting to leave any part of the sex industry to be able to call for help 24/7 and speak to another recovering person who was not connected with law enforcement.&nbsp; Our hotline has answered over 500,000 calls to date whereas Polaris has answered 70,000 to date according to the article we saw.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">August 15, 1987 (Day of Harmonic Convergence) - 1st Prostitutes Anonymous meeting in Tarzana, CA. We had 30 men and women in attendance.&nbsp; Over ½ of the people in that room that day are still in “recovery” from sex work today that we're personally aware of.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1987 – started the first ever HIV/AIDS outreach into the sex industry in Los Angeles, California with the support of the CDC, (Center for Disease Control), UCLA, GLASS, (Gay and Lesbian Social Services), Los Angeles Health Department, the LAX Press Newspaper, and COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics).&nbsp; We were proud to be able to train ex-sex workers who would be present when another was told they were in fact HIV positive.&nbsp; They would then become that person's “advocate” and guide them to resources we had identified for them for housing, medical, jobs, counseling, food, etc. - anything they might need even if it was just late night coffee to help them ease through the transition of finding out they were “positive”.&nbsp; Back in the 1980's this was almost always a death sentence within two years at most.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1988 – Dr. Joyce Wallace had an RV and started distributing clean needles, condoms and our flyers to street prostitutes in New York.&nbsp; We received a lot of calls from those flyers and still are in regular contact with women who came to us through that outreach project.&nbsp; Her program transformed into the FROST Project operating in New York today.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1988 – the first “alternative to sentencing” became available to prostitutes in Los Angeles County thanks to a committee put together by then Mayor Tom Bradley, and then Sheriff Sherman Block, and the Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women using “Prostitutes Anonymous” meetings and ideas they allowed me to present.&nbsp;&nbsp; This program allowed for early release from jail, and/or to substitute jail time with attending PA meetings for those who had been arrested for their 1st offense for prostitution.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">This dove-tailed into the opening of a special “wing” in the Via Avanta Program in Los Angeles, California whereby pregnant HIV positive prostitutes with children under the age of 18 years old could receive residential treatment while receiving special medical care and while being allowed to keep and raise their children with them in the facility.&nbsp; This had never been done before and was truly ground-breaking.&nbsp; We were also able to connect this into a “release” program where we'd have an ex-sex worker pick up women released from jail so they wouldn't have to “walk to the bottom of the hill” known for where pimps used to wait to pick up women who were coming out with nowhere to go.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1989 – the committee I was asked to be on by then Mayor Tom Bradley to put together the HIV outreach and the alternative to sentencing program for prostitutes developed into the “Los Angeles City AIDS Coordinator's Office” which spearheaded the development of a comprehensive multi-prong effort to combat AIDS.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">After presenting them with enough testimony and research to back up my “points” - the city acknowledged what I was telling them was a barrier to effectively fighting HIV within the sex industry and put the ACO together to overcome these obstacles.&nbsp; The first being that no sex worker was going to come forward openly for training or testing if they were afraid of being arrested, nor would their clients.&nbsp; This is why the City Attorney's office got involved.&nbsp; The second was that if you informed a sex worker they were in fact HIV positive – one couldn't expect them to “shut down shop” immediately because this person still had to pay rent, and especially pay for medical care.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Since most sex workers don't have private health insurance, and make too much money to qualify for state health insurance – this was a real barrier that had to be addressed.&nbsp; So they needed to be provided with housing, food and medical while they were going through job re-training.&nbsp; So the work we started in 1988 developed into what became the ACO in 1989.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">August of 1989 – relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania to help found the “Lehigh County Program for Female Offenders” with Ruth Wernick.&nbsp; The womens' jail there was holding 2,000 prostitutes in a dorm built to hold only 200.&nbsp; The program was designed to reduce the number, and recidivism, of female prostitutes there.&nbsp; A comprehensive program was put together where selected women were moved into a residential home where they attended “Prostitutes Anonymous” meetings, as well as receiving counseling, job training, drug treatment, and parenting classes.&nbsp; Within a year, we eliminated the need to build a new jail and had decreased the recidivism rate from 87 % to down below 16 %.&nbsp; Our only “failures” were with the “dual-diagnosed” in the program.&nbsp; I had to move back to Los Angeles in 1990 because of getting married and pregnant – so I took my hands off the wheel of this project.&nbsp; It folded but was reborn as the “Program for Women and Children” which in 2007-2009 only had a 20-25 % recidivism rate.&nbsp; But from reading their website – it looks like they incorporated much of our earlier program which worked then as is working now.&nbsp; We emphasized viewing exiting the “life” as one the whole family culture had to address if one were to be successful at leaving.&nbsp; It's almost impossible to give up a life “on the streets” when your mother, or daughter, or aunts, etc. are still “out there”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1990 – was asked by Paige Latin, a “sponsee” of mine to help her write a grant to open a crisis drop-in center and residential program for prostitutes to exit the sex industry in Vancouver, Canada.&nbsp; Evidently one had not existed before – but there was an epidemic of serial killers targeting prostitutes.&nbsp; The SPACE (Substance and Prostitution Alternatives Counseling and Education) was created because 10 prostitutes were sardined into her studio apartment afraid to “work the streets” because of serial killers. I wrote the program, trained the staff, and the grant applications.&nbsp; The program was funded and opened in 1991.&nbsp; Paige had to go visit her ailing father who soon passed in 1992.&nbsp; It became the PACE program that exists today in 1994.&nbsp; Paige and I have both removed our names from the PACE program once it was taken over with a “harm reduction” focus instead of an exit focus.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1991 – incorporated “Prostitutes Anonymous” in California.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1991 – copyrighted the “Prostitutes Anonymous” Recovery Guide “Sold Out”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1991 – James Crossen, PhD, director of the Addictions Studies Program at Mission College in California starts the first ever training program for counselors, therapists, social workers, etc., who work with people trying to recover not only from drug and/or alcohol addiction in his “Addictions Studies” program he founded – but also from the sex industry and/or trafficking.&nbsp; He added a complimentary course in the “neurology of trauma” to further explain the issues I was addressed from a medical/neurological point of view, as well as how treatment works within the mind and body from a neurological point of view as well.&nbsp; He also explained how trauma alters one's very neurological system – and any treatment plan must address these changes if it is to work.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1994 – relocated to Nebraska where we bought property and set up a series of “safe houses” along with half-way transitional housing for those wanting to escape traffickers from the large urban cities.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1995 – changed name to “Sex Workers Anonymous” after unanimous “group conscience” vote.&nbsp; Wrote to AA's General Office notifying them of name change and requesting permission to adapt steps to new named program.&nbsp; They consented.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">1996 – sold the property (our wards had gotten onto their feet and were doing very well) in Nebraska and relocated to Nevada to assist those calling us from the legal brothels needing assistance to escape.&nbsp; They are not allowed to leave the brothels on foot, and there are no cabs for them to leave with either.&nbsp; Law enforcement is too spread out in Nevada to be able to reach where the brothels were – so we came to Nevada to be able to pick up those wanting to leave and transition them out of the sex industry.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2006 – assisted Sharnel Silvey, from A Scarlet Covering, to starting the first alternative sentencing project in northern Nevada for prostitutes.&nbsp; This program operated successfully for a year.&nbsp; Sharnel had been a madam at the Mustang Ranch legal brothel.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">September 2007 – announced the formation of NCAST and released the findings of the report commissioned by the State Dept. and prepared by Melissa Farley, and myself, entitled “Trafficking in Nevada – Making the Connections”.&nbsp; This report explored the connection between the legal brothels, and sex industry, and trafficking in Nevada.&nbsp; I wrote three chapters in the book and presented the findings at the international press conference – as well as at UNLV the next day.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">October 2007 – after disconnecting from NCAST and Melissa Farley - founded “Trafficking and Prostitution Services” as an alternative to handle activities outside the boundaries of what a 12 step program can do appropriately (like how the National Council on Alcoholism was born so AA didn't have to violate their steps and traditions to advance the cause and treatment of alcoholism).&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">February of 2013 – George Flynt, the lobbyist for the Nevada Brothels Association, appeared at the Nevada legislature to ask if they could expand into downtown Las Vegas to open more brothels.&nbsp; We had an SWA member appear after him speaking about her “true life” experiences working at a Nevada legal brothel recently within the last year.&nbsp; No one else appeared to oppose.&nbsp; This event was televised and recorded.&nbsp; The brothels bid was denied.&nbsp; This poor advocate came home to find her power, TV, cable, internet and phone all disconnected for three days – the same thing which had happened to me <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">after I'd given our press conference at what connections the legal brothels have to sex trafficking in Nevada.&nbsp; Within a week she further found everything in her apartment robbed and her life threatened.&nbsp; She is now living safely in California – still out of the sex industry today.&nbsp; The Mob Museum went up in the place of where the brothel would have been, along with the arts district and farmers market.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2013 – started the “Stop Sex Traffick Talk” radio show.&nbsp; Over 17,000 “listens” to date.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2013 – international Phone Conference Meetings&nbsp; for Sex Workers Anonymous started weekly.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2014 – became a 501c3 tax-exempt “non-profit”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">December 2014 – co-founded “SWAN” the program for parents, spouses, children, and other “loved ones” who care about someone leaving the sex industry and/or a trafficking victim.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><u>TV Appearances (Interviews</u></i>) <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Geraldo Talk Show (4x) Sally Jesse Raphael Talk Show (4x) Jerry Springer Talk Show (3x) Maury Povich Talk Show (2x) Donahue Talk Show Joan Rivers Talk Show (2x) Vicki Lawrence Talk Show Christina Ferrarri Talk Show (2x) Ricki Lake Talk Show <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Good Morning America <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Good Morning Los Angeles <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Good Morning Boston <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Good Morning Chicago <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">60 Minutes <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">20/20 Inside Edition<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><u>TV (Other)</u></i><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Weekly Cable Series about “Prostitutes Anonymous” in Los Angeles, California and Philadelphia.&nbsp; In this series – we'd interview a different member of Prostitutes Anonymous each week.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Educational Seminar on Cable about the “neurology of addiction, trauma and prostitution” co-presented with James Crossen, PhD (240 minutes long).&nbsp; This was for his students at the Addictions Studies program at Mission College.&nbsp; James and I recorded a weekly talk series on cable TV talking about how to work with men and women coming out of sex work specifically with PTSD and how trauma can mimic “addictive” patterns. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Frances Nuyen, the actress from the Joy Luck Club, recorded our public service announcements for 15 second, 30 second and 60 second TV broadcast commercials, as well as audio commercials.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Documentary Channel 9 Documentary about “Prostitutes Anonymous” and my life.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Radio Interviews Michael Jackson – ABC National Radio Gloria Allred – ABC National Radio Tom Becca – KOIL Radio (Nebraska)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Live Speaking National Council on Sexual Addiction Convention – Keynote Speaker Sexaholics Anonymous International Convention – Keynote Speaker (2x) Sexaholics Anonymous Philadelphia Convention – Keynote Speaker, Workshop Leader <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Narcotics Anonymous Special Conference - Lecturer Radar Institute – Sexual Addiction Student Lecture <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">UCLA – Human Sexuality and Psychology Lecture (3x) Los Angeles City College – Psychology Lecture Pierce College – Psychology and Criminal Law Lecture (2x) Los Angeles Valley College – Human Sexuality and Psychology Lecture Mission College Addictions Studies – Drug and Alcohol Counselor Students Sybil Brand Institute for Women – Inmate Presentation Lehigh County Womens' Jail – Inmate Presentation Philadelphia Womens' Jail – Inmate Presentation Atlantic City Womens' Jail – Inmate Presentation Via Avanta Residential Program for Women – Client Presentation Tarzana Treatment Center – Client Presentation Cry Help – Client Presentation Impact House – Client Presentation COYOTE – Los Angeles, California Mary Magdalene Project – Los Angeles, California Genesis House – Chicago, Illinois Project Rainbow – Omaha, Nebraska Salvation Army – Atlantic City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, and Philadelphia UNLV – panel on “Trafficking in Nevada” where I spoke, along with Melissa Farley, PhD, and two members of “Prostitutes Anonymous” (the name they came in with us was PA), who went on to form their own programs to help prostitutes.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Staff Training Tarzana Treatment Center (Tarzana, Palmdale, Lancaster, Reseda and Long Beach Branches) Impact House (California) Cry Help (California) Lehigh County Program for Female Offenders (Pennsylvania) Corrections Officers – Los Angeles California Corrections Officers – Allentown, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania HIV Testing Site – W. Hollywood, Hollywood, Van Nuys, Northridge, E. Los Angeles and Long Beach<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">GLASS (Gay and Lesbian Social Services) – Los Angeles, California) Advocate Magazine – W. Hollywood, California “Underground” Gay Men's Bath Houses – San Fernando Valley, California Private Swingers Clubs – California Various strip clubs, peep shows, adult theaters, and incall/outcall services HUD – Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Methadone Clinics – Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, and South Central Los Angeles Via Avanta Residential Program for Women – Los Angeles, California<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><u>Movies Based on Myself and Work</u></i> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">“Those Secrets” - Blair Brown and Mare Winningham released 1991 <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">“Fighting for my Daughter” starring Lindsey Wagner released 1995<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">News Interviews Los Angeles, California – Channel 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 13 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Channel 7 Atlantic City, New Jersey – Channel 3<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><u>Print Articles/Interviews</u></i> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Playboy – News Release <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Chic Magazine – Article <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Salon Magazine – Series<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">&nbsp;Los Angeles Times, Daily <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">News</a><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"><!--[if !supportAnnotations]--><a class="msocomanchor" href="file:///C:/Users/Loren/Documents/JODY-PERSONAL/jodyupdatedcv.docx#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" language="JavaScript" name="_msoanchor_1">[JW1]</a><!--[endif]-->&nbsp;</span></span>, NY Times, Review Journal, City Life Las Vegas Weekly<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Dear Abby, Cindy Adams<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><u>Books 1991</u></i><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Wrote the “Prostitutes Anonymous” Recovery Guide entitled “Sold Out” after interviewing 2,000 men and women, from various countries, including legal and illegal parts of the sex industry, both in and out of the sex industry about the “recovery process”.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2004 - “The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene” by Jane Schaberg.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2007 – Three chapters on pimps and brainwashing was included in Melissa Farley's book “Trafficking in Nevada” published after her report was done commissioned by the State Dept.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2009 – John Quinones from ABC's “What Would You Do?” flew to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he interviewed me along with members of “Sex Workers Anonymous”, watched how we work and wrote a whole chapter about us in his book “Heroes Among Us”.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2012 - “Girls, Women &amp; Crime” by Lisa Pasko.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2013 – “Somebody's Daughter” by Julian Sher – has a quote about a program where the clients attend weekly “Prostitutes Anonymous” meetings.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2014 – Wrote the “SWAN” handbook and updated the “Recovery Guide” for SWA to reflect what we've learned about our program since 1991.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2014 – Quotes from interviews about “Prostitutes Anonymous” appears in a positive light in the book “Leaving the Sex Industry” by Susan Oselin.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">2014 – “Women, Sex &amp; Addiction” by Charlotte Kasl has a listing to reach our program.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Special Certifications 1996 - Certified by the FBI as an “expert in brain washing by pimps” so I could testify in a trafficking case as to how this pimp had these women convinced they were acting of their own free will when in fact they were not.&nbsp; The process pimps used to brainwash their victims is almost identical to the process religious cults use to brainwash their members with the addition of the sexual trauma added.&nbsp; The defendant heard I was testifying and made a plea bargain immediately.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Special Mention In 1988, Joe Conforte, the owner of the Mustang Ranch legal brothel in Nevada, announced he wanted to open brothels all over California.&nbsp; Joe was asked if he would create special programs for the prostitutes much like dancers or athletes have.&nbsp; For example, special workers' comp programs, disability, retirement, and vocational rehabilitation programs.&nbsp; I also wanted the women to have a “union” with one of their own as a “representative” to advocate for them.&nbsp; He refused to discuss any of these ideas and put up $1,000,000 into a PR company to make sure he'd “win the vote” of Californians. Because the FCC had a law at the time in place requiring all political issues have a “counter” opinion airing alongside them – all of this TV, radio and print interviews had to be up “against” someone.&nbsp; No one else would “oppose” Joe but myself – so I was the only one who appeared in any of his interviews “up against” him that year.&nbsp; When the votes came in – he lost.&nbsp; So I beat out a million-dollar PR campaign with my mouth!<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">Joe also was bragging during this year that he had a “study that proved no brothel prostitutes had HIV” during a time when HIV was very much on people's minds in the 1980's.&nbsp; I however did some digging and discovered that not only had Joe “bought” that research – but it was “rigged”.&nbsp; The current testing at the time took six months to incubate – however he was testing at only four months’ time with no follow-up testing.&nbsp; Therefore, no one would show up “positive”.&nbsp; He stopped bragging about that test after I exposed it a few times for what it was.&nbsp; Marketing.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing">(End)<o:p></o:p></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportAnnotations]--> <hr align="left" class="msocomoff" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div><!--[if !supportAnnotations]--> <div class="msocomtxt" id="_com_1" language="JavaScript"><!--[endif]--><!--[if !supportAnnotations]--><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_msocom_1"></a><!--[endif]--> <div class="MsoCommentText"><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">&nbsp;<!--[if !supportAnnotations]--><a class="msocomoff" href="file:///C:/Users/Loren/Documents/JODY-PERSONAL/jodyupdatedcv.docx#_msoanchor_1">[J</a></span></span></div></div></div></div>LEAVING THE LIFEhttps://plus.google.com/112125728266523628347noreply@blogger.com0